Biff Pocoroba

Biff Benedict Pocoroba

Positions: Catcher, Pinch Hitter and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: July 25, 1953 in Burbank, CA
High School: Canoga Park HS (Canoga Park, CA)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 17th round of the 1971 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 25, 1975
Team: Braves 1975-1984

Final Game: April 20, 1984
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1975	ATL	NL	21	C	62	49	48	466.0	270	237	25	8	2	.970	-10	-26	5.06	4.23	.985	6.03	6.02	13	13	60	12	17%	32%	0
1976	ATL	NL	22	C	54	51	44	440.0	319	273	39	7	5	.978	-1	-3	6.38	5.78	.986	5.96	5.94	10	11	31	16	34%	33%	0
1977	ATL	NL	23	C	100	86	83	798.1	627	542	78	7	8	.989	-4	-6	6.99	6.20	.985	6.49	6.49	15	33	103	52	34%	35%	0
1978	ATL	NL	24	C	79	77	75	682.2	502	454	43	5	1	.990	-9	-16	6.55	6.29	.985	6.17	6.12	12	29	82	25	23%	32%	0	AS
1979	ATL	NL	25	C	7	6	4	51.1	45	39	3	3	0	.933	-1	-23	7.36	6.00	.985	6.12	6.11	0	5	8	3	27%	34%	1
1980	ATL	NL	26	C	10	9	8	75.1	61	56	1	4	0	.934	-4	-64	6.81	5.70	.983	6.09	6.10	1	4	16	1	6%	31%	0
1981	ATL	NL	27	3B	21	20	17	171.0	48	15	30	3	4	.938	-4	-27	2.37	2.14	.948	2.84	2.85
1981	ATL	NL	27	C	9	6	3	52.0	32	28	4	0	2	1.000	1	23	5.54	3.56	.983	5.94	5.96	0	2	4	3	43%	33%	0
1982	ATL	NL	28	C	36	29	23	249.2	161	143	16	2	2	.988	-4	-19	5.73	4.42	.985	6.29	6.30	1	14	44	13	23%	32%	1
1982	ATL	NL	28	3B	2	1	0	7.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-94	1.17	0.50	.950	2.82	2.80
1983	ATL	NL	29	C	34	29	18	248.1	181	166	12	3	1	.983	-4	-19	6.45	5.24	.984	6.57	6.54	1	8	39	9	19%	33%	1
	9 Seasons			C	391	342	306	3063.2	2198	1938	221	39	21	.982	-36	-14	6.34	5.52	.985	6.24	6.22	53	119	387	134	26%	33%	3
	2 Seasons			3B	23	21	17	178.2	49	16	30	3	4	.939	-5	-30	2.32	2.00	.948	2.84	2.84
	10 Seasons			TOT	414	363	323	3242.1	2247	1954	251	42	25	.981	-41	-15	6.12	5.33	.984	6.05	6.04	53	119	387	134	26%	33%	3

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rctch
1975	ATL	NL	21	C	-10	-26					-10
1976	ATL	NL	22	C	-1	-3					-1
1977	ATL	NL	23	C	-4	-6					-4
1978	ATL	NL	24	C	-9	-16					-9
1979	ATL	NL	25	C	-1	-23					-1
1980	ATL	NL	26	C	-4	-64					-4
1981	ATL	NL	27	3B	-4	-27	-4	-2	-2	0
1981	ATL	NL	27	C	1	23					1
1982	ATL	NL	28	C	-4	-19					-4
1982	ATL	NL	28	3B	-1	-94	-1	-1	0
1983	ATL	NL	29	C	-4	-19					-4
	9 Seasons			C	-36	-14					-36
	2 Seasons			3B	-5	-30	-5	-3	-2	0
	10 Seasons			TOT	-41	-15	-5	-3	-2	0	-36

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	3B	PH	PR
1975	ATL	NL	21	67	49	67	62	62	0	9	1
1976	ATL	NL	22	54	51	54	54	54	0	2	0
1977	ATL	NL	23	113	86	113	100	100	0	23	0
1978	ATL	NL	24	92	77	92	79	79	0	15	0
1979	ATL	NL	25	28	6	28	7	7	0	22	0
1980	ATL	NL	26	70	9	70	10	10	0	61	0
1981	ATL	NL	27	57	26	57	29	9	21	31	0
1982	ATL	NL	28	56	30	56	38	36	2	21	0
1983	ATL	NL	29	55	29	55	35	35	0	23	0
1984	ATL	NL	30	4	0	4	0	0	0	4	0
	10 Seasons			596	363	596	414	392	23	211	1

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1975	ATL	NL	21	2053	3.99	4.96	28	96%	0	0	235	16	4	11	204	25	7	1	0	2	8	0	2	6	1	2	0	1	2	3	67%
1976	ATL	NL	22	1887	3.56	4.15	26	100%	1	0	275	13	1	10	251	38	8	2	1	7	7	1	1	5	0	5	0	0	1	5	100%
1977	ATL	NL	23	3610	4.97	5.61	52	98%	1	1	548	26	4	25	493	76	11	0	0	10	7	1	2	4	0	8	0	2	3	3	100%
1978	ATL	NL	24	2937	3.88	4.38	35	100%	0	0	449	24	1	13	411	43	6	1	0	14	5	0	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1979	ATL	NL	25	236	5.47	5.82	3	100%	1	0	37	2	0	2	33	4	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
1980	ATL	NL	26	343	4.54	5.62	4	100%	0	0	56	3	0	1	52	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
1981	ATL	NL	27	208	3.46	3.46	1	0%	0	1	28	0	1	4	23	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	1	0%
1982	ATL	NL	28	1065	4.25	4.61	8	100%	0	0	144	5	0	1	138	17	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	100%
1983	ATL	NL	29	1047	3.73	4.13	5	100%	0	0	166	3	0	2	161	12	2	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
	9 Seasons			13386	4.19	4.79	162	98%	3	2	1938	92	11	69	1766	220	39	4	1	37	38	2	7	29	1	23	0	4	7	16	88%
	MLB Averages				3.79	4.27		96%																							91%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1975	ATL	NL	21	13	13	793	60	12	11	17%	47	11	13	1	0	0	0	0	101	19	1.07	1.05
1976	ATL	NL	22	10	11	713	31	16	16	34%	29	15	2	1	0	0	0	0	65	18	1.23	1.44
1977	ATL	NL	23	15	33	1416	103	52	50	34%	93	48	10	4	0	0	0	0	188	59	1.32	1.24
1978	ATL	NL	24	12	29	1084	82	25	20	23%	76	24	6	0	0	1	0	0	147	27	1.36	1.04
1979	ATL	NL	25	0	5	83	8	3	3	27%	7	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	20	4	1.67	1.71
1980	ATL	NL	26	1	4	131	16	1	0	6%	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	2	2.02	0.57
1981	ATL	NL	27	0	2	66	4	3	3	43%	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	3	1.48	1.50
1982	ATL	NL	28	1	14	413	44	13	11	23%	39	12	3	1	2	0	1	0	66	17	1.31	1.13
1983	ATL	NL	29	1	8	381	39	9	7	19%	37	6	2	3	0	0	1	0	55	11	1.35	1.48
	9 Seasons			53	119	5080	387	134	121	26%	348	122	37	11	2	1	3	1	674	160	1.32	1.23
	MLB Averages									34%											1.31	1.28

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	543	53	GB	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1981	ATL	NL	27	770	46%	87%	28%	43	86%	0	14	8	2	4	30	23	5	1	1	3	0	3	0	3	4	2	1	4	0	0	0	6	50%
1982	ATL	NL	28	31	48%	90%	35%	0		0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			801	46%	87%	28%	43	86%	0	15	8	2	5	30	23	5	1	1	3	0	3	0	3	4	2	1	4	0	0	0	6	50%
	MLB Averages				60%	82%	28%		89%																								70%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1978 *	Assists as C s c a p y 1977 NL 78 (5th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1975 NL 13 (5th) 1976 NL 10 (3rd) 1977 NL 15 (2nd) 1978 NL 12 (2nd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1977 NL 103 (2nd) 1978 NL 82 (4th)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1977 NL 52 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1977 NL 6.99 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1977 NL 6.20 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1977 NL .989 (5th)

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