Error by omission

I was looking at a story on ESPN yesterday and noticed some glaring holes in their content. Being as the story was on the web, there were a ton of things that the story could have, or even should have included, but did not.

The story is about the Roberto Clemente award nominees, and the fact that 6 Hispanic players are nominated this year. There were a number of sidebars and such that could have added some interesting and valuable information to the story, but instead the story only included a few pictures.

First and foremost, the article says that there are 30 nominees for the award. I wanted to know who the other nominees were, since the article only names 6 of them, and I had heard Ryan Zimmerman's name thrown around. I actually searched the web for this and couldn't find it anywhere, so in all fairness it may be that the names aren't supposed to be published yet, or something.

Second, they could have included a chart of the previous winners. I remembered that Carlos Delgado won the award last year, but I'd be curious to know who the historic winners had been. This would have been a perfect opportunity for a simple table on the page, but for whatever reason there is nothing of the sort.

Finally, I don't really know that much about Roberto Clemente, since he was before my time. I know that he died in a plane crash while doing humanitarian work, and I know that he is considered one of the all-time great players, but that's about it. This article definitely could've benefitted from a timeline highlighting some of Clemente's key accomplishments.

At first i thought that maybe the extra content had been omitted because the story was from AP, but then i checked again and the story is from an ESPN Deportes writer. The only reason that I can come up with for leaving out information like that is that they thought that the page would be too cluttered. If that's the case, I think I'd have rather seen them do away with the second picture on the page and replace that with one of the tables that i suggested.
At least, that's how i would have done it.