Talk:Bengie Molina

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I don't get it, Bengie is horrible defensively. He throws runners stealing second base at an 18% success rate, yet this article says about how he is great defensively. I don't get it.

I don't think catchers that are "horrible defensively" win 2 gold gloves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.185.21 (talk) 05:57, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Measuring defensive worth by Gold Gloves is like saying someone is a good hitter by citing RBI totals. --98.116.175.52 (talk) 01:11, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be appropriate to add him as a 2010 World Series champion in the infobox since he received a World Series ring? --Coingeek (talk) 20:58, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

He won a ring in 2010. He was on the Giants roster during the season. Counts as a title for him. Braque6 (talk) 07:30, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, the Angels changed their name from "Anaheim Angels" to "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" in 2005, Molina's last season with them. However, "Anaheim Angels/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (1998-2005)" is a very long name for the section. Would it make more sense to merely call it "Anaheim Angels (1998-2005)"? Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 02:27, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone can find a source explaining the origins of the nickname "Big Money," that would be great. I assume part of the reason is that Molina's initials are BM, but SABR says only that he was nicknamed that, no explanation on why. Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 03:17, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: GhostRiver (talk · contribs) 16:58, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I'll be taking a look at this article for the

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Good Article review progress box WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Infobox and lede

• Add "MLB" in parentheses after "Major League Baseball"
• "got his first" → "received his first"

Early life

• Delink "Ladislao Martínez" per
  MOS:PARTIALNAMELINK
• Should "baseball hall of fame" in "Puerto Rico baseball hall of fame" be capitalized?
• Per
  WP:INTEGRITY
  , I'd prefer if the citations at the end of the first paragraph were spread out and linked to specific sentences
  • I would, but some of the sentences are backed up by multiple refs, and it would be a little difficult to sort all these out. Plus, the citations are done this way in Yadier Molina, another good article (from which I heavily copied the first couple of paragraphs). Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 19:40, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hmm, okay. Just know if you take this to DYK or FAC that they'll be a lot pickier. — GhostRiver 00:13, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

College

• Instead of using separate conversion factors, you can do {{convert|85|to|87|mph}}

Professional career

Anaheim Angels

• "Mayaguez" → "Indios de Mayagüez"
• I don't love the phrasing of taught him so much about catching, but I don't have any better ideas of how to rephrase it
• "was calling him" → "called him"
• "Despite getting" → "Despite receiving"
• "37%" → "37 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
  • The exact wording of MOS:PERCENT is "are commonly used", which implies to me that this isn't a requirement. I'd be happy to change it anyway if it was only used once or twice, but given that the % symbol appears several times in the article and the use is consistent, I think it's fine to keep it that way. Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 19:44, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• "45%" → "45 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
• Add the diacritics for Iván Rodríguez
• "becoming the only MLB catcher ever"
• "44%" → "44 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
• Add spaces around ellipses in "battles his weight" per
  MOS:ELLIPSES
• "26%" → "26 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
• Add diacritics for Bartolo Colón
• We have a WL for personal catcher? Game changer!
  • Perfect for cricket fan reviewers that have no idea what this means! (Although, whenever I'm annoyed at someone's total ignorance of the sport, I remind myself that at least they're reminding me what isn't as commonly known as I think it is.) Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Add diacritics for "Víctor Martínez"
• "31%" → "31 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT

Free agency

• Hyphen to en dash in the section header
• No comma needed after "$18 million"
• Link "prospects" to Prospect (sports)

Toronto Blue Jays

• "13%" → "13 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
• "18%" → "18 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT

San Francisco Giants

• Link concussion
• "becoming the first Giant with two home runs"
• "off of Jorge Julio"
• "2.9%" → "2.9 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
• by a San Francisco Giant does this distinction mean that someone had more RBI when the team was in NY?
  • Not sure, but the source said "San Francisco Giant," without clarifying who the NY record-holder was. Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 19:50, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• "30%" → "30 percent"
• "1000th hit" → "1,000th hit"
• Link sacrifice fly in the first paragraph and delink in the second of the 2008 section
• "35%" → "35 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
• "23%" → "23 percent" and "2.5%" → "2.5 percent" per
  MOS:PERCENT
• ""one of the greatest defensive catchers in Giants history."" → ""one of the greatest defensive catchers in Giants history"." per
  MOS:LQ
• No comma needed after "Molina re-signed"

Texas Rangers

• "23%" → "23 percent"
• DYK is admittedly not my favorite part of Wikipedia, but the part about the guaranteed World Series ring would make a great hook

Legacy

• Some kind of topic sentence in the first paragraph about his relationship with his pitchers would be nice

Coaching and broadcasting career

• Write out and link St. Louis Cardinals in the first sentence
  • How did they not get mentioned until after his career? Good thing this wasn't the Yadier article ... 19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Personal life

• Link Little League Baseball

References

• Good

General comments

• Images are properly licensed and relevant
• No stability concerns in the revision history
• Earwig score is artificially inflated by direct quotes and proper nouns, actual prose looks good

Everything looks good on my end, passing now! — GhostRiver 00:13, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]