Ump scorecard from last night

[Make Angels Great Again]

I know a bunch of you were interested in seeing this. It's not great.

 

[Stradling]

I still think the velocity and increased movement of pitches makes the job of a home plate umpire very difficult. You are seeing 99 MPH with 19 inches of movement these days. 

[Stradling]

Bring on robo umps if for not other reason than to offer them help. That being said I saw a few awful strikes called with robo ump in the minors. 

[arch stanton]

I still think they could get away with just having the robo ump call the outside corner and bottom of the zone and allow the plate ump to concentrate on the inside corner and the top. I've tried umpiring with kids and it's hard to see everything. It's physically impossible with a full sized catcher

[Chuck]

6 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

I still think they could get away with just having the robo ump call the outside corner and bottom of the zone and allow the plate ump to concentrate on the inside corner and the top. I've tried umpiring with kids and it's hard to see everything. It's physically impossible with a full sized catcher

This

[HeavenlyHalos]

5 ball/strike challenges a game or so to start would be nice. Batter has to call for review within 3 seconds. The results show on the jumbotron. Pretty much take what tennis has been doing for a long time. 

[Erstad Grit]

I wondered if the faster play this year would result with diminished home plate umpiring.

They have 2 more things to worry about (batter ready in time, pitcher throwing in time) and far less time to "reset" in between pitches. 

 

 

[Erstad Grit]

1 minute ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

5 ball/strike challenges a game or so to start would be nice. Batter has to call for review within 3 seconds. The results show on the jumbotron. Pretty much take what tennis has been doing for a long time. 

In tennis can they challenge both out balls called in and in balls called out? 

[HeavenlyHalos]

Just now, Erstad Grit said:

In tennis can they challenge both out balls called in and in balls called out? 

For the former, I believe they would have to not chase/hit the ball back in order to challenge it, but yes.

[Taylor]

33 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I still think the velocity and increased movement of pitches makes the job of a home plate umpire very difficult. You are seeing 99 MPH with 19 inches of movement these days. 

These guys are supposed to be the best in the business. If a batter can hit a 99 MPH pitch with 19 inches of movement, an ump should be able to accurately call it.

[Erstad Grit]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

These guys are supposed to be the best in the business. If a batter can hit a 99 MPH pitch with 19 inches of movement, an ump should be able to accurately call it.

They also have the best in the world catchers doing all they can to make the pitch look more like a strike. 

[Taylor]

Just now, Erstad Grit said:

They also have the best in the world catchers doing all they can to make the pitch look more like a strike. 

So get rid of umps all together if they can't keep up.

I'd love if people on a message board made excuses for me if I was only 88% accurate at my job.

[Erstad Grit]

2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

So get rid of umps all together if they can't keep up.

I'd love if people on a message board made excuses for me if I was only 88% accurate at my job.

Mike Trout is pretty good and he's successful 28% of the time so it's all relative. 

[Stradling]

13 minutes ago, Taylor said:

These guys are supposed to be the best in the business. If a batter can hit a 99 MPH pitch with 19 inches of movement, an ump should be able to accurately call it.

How?

[Stradling]

10 minutes ago, Taylor said:

So get rid of umps all together if they can't keep up.

I'd love if people on a message board made excuses for me if I was only 88% accurate at my job.

Dude you make a life of making excuses for other people.  It’s literally all you do. 

[James]

17 minutes ago, Taylor said:

So get rid of umps all together if they can't keep up.

I'd love if people on a message board made excuses for me if I was only 88% accurate at my job.

A sales person being able to close 88% of the individuals they speak to would be impressive. 

[Taylor]

22 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Dude you make a life of making excuses for other people.  It’s literally all you do. 

If I "make excuses" for anyone, it's for people who are marginalized in society.

You seem to have an inability to criticize anybody who holds some kind of authority position.

But you're still one of my favorite posters.

[Stradling]

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

If I "make excuses" for anyone, it's for people who are marginalized in society.

You seem to have an inability to criticize anybody who holds some kind of authority position.

But you're still one of my favorite posters.

My point is if we are seeing worse home plate umpiring by more umpires maybe the job became harder. Then I have an example of how it could have become harder. It has zero to do with authority and more to do with causation and not assuming they are incompetent. 

[T.G.]

4 hours ago, arch stanton said:

It's physically impossible with a full sized catcher

That's an easy fix.  Institute height and weight restrictions for all catchers!

[Taylor]

47 minutes ago, Stradling said:

My point is if we are seeing worse home plate umpiring by more umpires maybe the job became harder. Then I have an example of how it could have become harder. It has zero to do with authority and more to do with causation and not assuming they are incompetent. 

Perhaps, but it's not like the umpires were doing so well until this season came around. 

Do you extend the same level of systemic understanding to the minor leaguers who get paid pennies? Just curious.

 

[Blarg]

Look forward to today's scorecard for Eddings.