Talk:Biff Pocoroba

Passed balls
Pocoroba was the designated catcher for Phil Neikro, who had a knuckleball that at times was equally unhittable and uncatchable. Some mention should be made of that, since the article points out that he led the league in PBs multiple times. Taterbill (talk) 18:23, 29 May 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taterbill (talk • contribs) 18:00, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I haven't come across any reliable sources that say that Pocoroba was Niekro's personal catcher. Also, a passed ball is recorded when the official scorer concludes it's the catcher's fault (not pitcher's, which would be scored as a wild pitch).  So it's safe to say that, regardless of how difficult it was to catch that knuckleball, the official scorers thought adjudged that Pocoroba should have been able to catch it with ordinary effort. —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:49, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request
According to Pocoroba's player pages on MLB.com, Baseball-Reference, and the baseball stat research website SABR.org, his actual first name is Biff and Benedict is his middle name. I wasn't able to find a source or an edit summary from User:UnhappyCanuck, who made these changes yesterday, showing how these reliable sources got it wrong. The infobox, the first words in the article, and the first words in the "Early life" section all should refer to him as Biff Pocoroba or Biff Benedict Pocoroba without nickname-denoting quotation marks. 108.73.104.136 (talk) 22:36, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed – I've changed it back to his proper first name. —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:58, 31 May 2020 (UTC)