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  • Surly Bevo
    Surly Bevo

    When the robot umpires come I kind of hope they have a random Angel Hernandez setting for the lulz.  Jeez that guy is so fucking awful.

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  • Surly Bevo
    Surly Bevo

    While I know some don’t like it usually an ump might be consistently “wrong” during a game in one or two spots. “He seems to be giving them a ball off the plate low and away tonight.” or “He really li

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  • 4 weeks later...
#353
Umpires missed 27,336 calls during the regular season including 1,637 strikeouts.These were the 10 worst called strikeouts.(Spoiler: Despite only umpiring half the season, Angel Hernandez called the worst one in Umpire Auditor history)

 

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#354

Well, bye


Umpire Pat Hoberg, considered MLB’s best by many, was fired for sharing a betting account with a friend who bet on baseball, MLB said. There’s no evidence he bet on baseball or affected games (his umpiring was excellent) but MLB found he impeded the inquiry by deleting messages.

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#365

Torey Lovullo just got his money’s worth after being tossed by Laz Diaz. don’t see guys get that animated as often as you used to, but Laz has a way of bringing it out of people.

#367

this home played umpire in Atlanta is having a tough night early on, I’ll be interested to see what his report card ends up looking like.

#368

this guy is fucking awful. wow. he’ll make a called strike on a ball out of the zone, then call a ball on the exact same pitch except that this one is 100% in the zone. this guy sucks.

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#369

Steve McMichael was a Super Bowl champion, Pro Football Hall of Famer and a member of the Four Horsemen.But on Aug. 7, 2001 he lived out every baseball fan’s dream when he got to tell Angel Hernandez to eat shit at Wrigley.Rest in peace, Mongo.

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#370

home plate umpire in cincy has been an absolute joke, and i’ve only been watching for 1.5 innings. just terrible. announcers just mentioned that both dugouts have been livid, and claimed it’s, “just been a ‘shake your head’ type of day”.

#371

annnnd oli mármol has been tossed. and of course, the fat, red faced, hypersensitive umpire is about 10 levels of anger above where mármol is at. fucking confrontational, “wish-somebody-would” ass umpires man. 

#372

Oli Marmol is a stupid asshole, so I'm team ump on that one.  

The pitch Oli was arguing about was called correctly anyways.

#373
Max Scherzer trolling umpire CB Bucknor with a “coin flip call” taunt is all-time funny

 

#374
Homeplate umpire Bill Miller cursed himself out on the hot mic after getting a call wrong after review 😭

 

#375
EVERYBODY is fed up with the umpiring in the SEC.

 

#378
Umpire Adrian Johnson called the worst game of the season so far.He missed 17 calls in the first 5.5 innings and 13 went against the Twins. When Rocco Baldelli complained, he was ejected.Johnson missed 22 calls in the game and had a season's worst correct call rate of 83.1%.

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#382

Brewers pitcher Tyler Alexander froze on the mound after this pitch was called a ball yesterday 😭
#384

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6328105/2025/05/01/mlb-umpire-strike-zone-buffer-zone-change/

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In the winter, Major League Baseball negotiated a seemingly simple change in how home-plate umpires are graded and evaluated. But now, a month into the season, its impact on balls and strikes has players asking questions about what they believe is a tightened strike zone — and searching for ways to adjust to a new wrinkle they say caught them by surprise.

That change, which was part of a new labor agreement with the Major League Umpires Association, significantly decreased the margin of error for umpires in their evaluations — and has resulted in fewer called strikes off the edges of the plate through the same point as last season.

“Everybody’s zone has shrunk,” Angels catcher Travis d’Arnaud told The Athletic. “Every (umpire) across the league.”

The actual number of pitches affected is relatively small. But the reaction — from pitchers, catchers, pitching coaches and analytics-driven front offices — has been anything but. They say the shift in how balls and strikes are now called is already having an impact on game-planning, pitch sequencing, pitch framing techniques, evaluation models and even roster construction.

For the past two decades, umpires were working with a “buffer zone” that gave them 2 inches of leeway — on all sides of the plate, just off the strike zone — when they were graded on how accurately they called balls and strikes.

Now, however, that buffer zone has shrunk, from 2 inches on all sides to just three-quarters of an inch on all sides, inside and outside the strike zone (1.5 inches total), according to league sources briefed on the change but not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. An MLB official confirmed that the buffer zone had decreased in size.

 

TLDR: MLB changed the way that umpires are graded over the offseason by shrinking the "buffer zone" from 2 inches to 3/4 inch which has effectively squeezed the strike zone.

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#386
9 hours ago, Derka said:
What in the World??!!?

 

Catcher was even surprised by the call.

#387

Ump: You've won 8 games this season.  Hit the showers, bro.  I've got a flight to catch.

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#388
Umpire Lance Barrett missed 16 calls in the game and 12 went against the Rangers.Yankees won 1-0.

 

#389

phil cuzzi has taken the baton from angel hernandez and run with it.

Can we eject Phil Cuzzi for this call? [Javy Baez ejected for having a better eye than Cuzzi]

 

#390
Ohtani just went went perfect perfect.. WHAT WAS THAT SOUND??

 

#394
Umpire: Ben MayFinal: Yankees 1, Angels 0#RepBX // #RepTheHalo#NYYvsLAA // #LAAvsNYYMore stats for this ump 👇https://t.co/nB0dBFcWZn

 

#395
Umpire Andy Fletcher made a terrible call and ejected JP Crawford for complaining.Fletcher was the lowest rated umpire of the day and ranks 82nd of 88 umpires this season.

 

#397
The "It's Raining...we want to an Official Game" Strike Zone. This pitch would need a $7 Uber ride to get to the plate. 🤣

 

🙄🙄🙄

#398
On 5/30/2025 at 11:24 PM, Derka said:
Umpire Andy Fletcher made a terrible call and ejected JP Crawford for complaining.Fletcher was the lowest rated umpire of the day and ranks 82nd of 88 umpires this season.

 

 

Umpire claims that JP Crawford spit on him, a breakdown

 

#399
** NEW UMPIRE AUDITOR RECORD **Yesterday, Umpire Laz Diaz rang up Jake Magnum on a pitch that missed outside by 6.83 inches.With that call, Laz Diaz has taken the crown from Angel Hernandez for the worst called strikeout in Umpire Auditor history. https://t.co/2LvDoJaLio

 

#400
Manfred: MLB will propose automated ball-strike challenge system for 2026 at the major-league levelhttps://t.co/lXLDfWR4Sw

 

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