Only had time for one game yesterday
Only had time for one game yesterday
But there were other games on. I missed this one
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Couple games from yesterday
Spam-a-lot please please stop.,,
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Yesterday’s games
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Yesterday’s games
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Baseball umpires aren't as bad as you think this season
Despite what you may have heard — or think you've seen with your own two eyes — Major League Baseball's umpires are actually doing pretty well this season, at least when it comes to calling balls and strikes.
By the numbers: League-wide, baseball umps have a nearly 94% accuracy rating so far in 2024, per unofficial metric-keeper UmpScorecards.
- That's down a bit from 2023 but up from a relatively miserable 90% or so in 2015.
How it works: UmpScorecards' accuracy stat tracks the percentage "of called pitches called correctly by the umpire."
- See more about their methodology here.
Yes, but: There's no shortage of evidence that umps are struggling lately. So what's really happening?
- It's never been easier for egregiously bad calls to go viral on social media, where they're the bread and butter of hugely popular channels like Jomboy Media.
- The accuracy stat also treats every pitch as equal. If an ump makes a bad call at a critical moment in a game, that's obviously going to create more fan outcry.
- Plus, with around 150 called pitches in a typical game, only a handful of bad calls can make the difference between a relatively high accuracy rating and the bottom of the barrel.
There's also a decent gap between the best- and worst-performing umpires so far this year.
- The top ump, Derek Thomas, has a 96.1% accuracy rating across six games and 1,027 called pitches.
- His lowest-ranked counterpart, John Bacon, is at 90% — but has only overseen a single game, in which he called 201 pitches.
What of umpire Angel Hernandez, the source of many a baseball fan's ire this year?
- He's at 93.3% across six games and 1,099 called pitches— middling, but better than you might expect.
Caveat: Calling balls and strikes is only part of an ump's job. There's plenty of other stuff they can mess up too.
The bottom line: The robo-umps are maybe coming one day, anyway.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Was watching the Yankee game yesterday when I saw Judge get ejected which prompted me to post the article above
Aaron Judge ejected for 1st time in his career after arguing a strike 3 call
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