The A's might have bullpen issues, and they might have a lot of them. But no team in the history of baseball has been a .118 team in one-run games over a full season. I should research that and cite something ...
The answer is no. Your objective as a writer or speaker of a quotation is to make an impact. Evaluate both choices -- paraphrase and direct quote. Usually, paraphrasing makes more sense if: 1  the quotation is long and wordy. 2  the words in the quotation are not powerful. 3  the source of the quotation is unknown or dubious. 4  you are capable of making a good paraphrase without making it seem like plagiarism.
When you paraphrase, you must entirely reword material taken from a source, without using quotation marks. You may use the source s words as long as you do not use more than two in a row from any passage. paraphrase must be entirely different from the original. When you quote, you must enclose material taken from a source in quotation marks: words taken from the source. If the quotation is more than three lines, it should be block indented and single spaced, without quotation marks.