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Thank you so much @dumbdumb! You are correct about Steve's website. From Facebook:

retrosheet dot org--- click at the top on people, then click on umpires----other site is stevetheump but i believe the site is down now. that site had minor league umpires and their leagues going back to 1999 and the MLBU crews, playoff MLBU crews and other info, umpire media guides etc. and if you click on an umpire in retrosheet, and sporting news umpires category shows up, they have some history on umpires minor league careers (but it looks like they stopped those cards about the time O'Nora started in the 80's. hope this helps. there are probably others with tons of resources.

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Yes, correct. mis-ststement on my part.

No LL exception (baseball nor softball). Runner hit by a batted ball before through or by and no other fielder with a chance to make a play is an out.

In softball this is not an out - I believe in all rulesets - due to the smaller basepaths and the limitations in leadoff capabilities, the runner is more likely to be hit by a ball while still on base. (although, I do not think LL minors baseball has this exception)

I am really impressed with the numbers being thrown around for so many MLB umpires and their career stats. The information like the number of callup games is detailed and, in many cases, has some age to it. On behalf of the many who may not have the courage, ignorance, and/or self awareness, where are you all getting the data?

He can't be called for interference with a fielder unless intentional. But why can't he be called for being hit by a fly batted ball, other than an Infield Fly, that satisfies the rule.

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Gen-X’ers remember this one: 🎵 “Five Eight Eight, Two Three Hundred, Empiiiiiire.” 🎵 If you live in Wisconsin: “David Gruber… One Call, That’s All.” (Big grin) 😁 @gerry, the particular type of bat-sport matters: Baseball ⚾️? Out. Softball 🥎? Not out, unless intentional.

If the ball in bounding, the base is not a safe haven for being hit by a batted ball. So, if the runner would have been out if he was off the base, he's out if he was on the base. If it's a fly ball, the runner need not leave the base, but he can't intentionally interfere.

Runner at second and better hits ball up the middle and hits the runner who is still standing on second base. What's the call?

It doesn't matter when the BR is the one who caused the interference. If it was another runner then the fair/foul would come into play. The only reason why we would need the fair/foul status on a "squibber" is to determine what to do with the batter-runner after the interference call. Since, on this play, they are out on the interference it doesn't matter if it rolls foul after the hinderance.

well Garcia was a former Marine combat engineer. Johnson went up in 2010 after 371 call up games after starting as call up in 2006. i think?? some other person was up a long time (Ron Barnes) but did not make it. system is not set up for for all call ups to make it, just like not all AAA are set up to be a call up. you are in until you are out from the get go as far as making it as a MLBU.

This is the group I remember from the mid 2000s. Adrian Johnson was up for a while but not as long as those guys. He developed (it seemed) a reputation but don’t forget Angel Campos worked for a long time and then got released. Seemed to correspond to a change in the supervisors when Richie Garcia was let go - had always heard Garcia liked the confrontational cowboy type approach.

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Your logic makes sense. I'm asking if there is a cite allowing a runner to interfere with a fielder fielding a batted ball that isn't a fly ball and most likely will be foul. And for your "squibber" what do we have if the ball rolls foul after the INT?

basically this has allowed a try out situation in Major League Regular Season games for supervisors to scout, rather than just scouting umpires in a AAA MiLB situation/environment and a more relaxed Spring Training situation/environment due to the 1979 contract that started letting umpires have 1 then 2 and now 4 weeks of vacation time. Layne was the last to go FT right from MiLB, the same year, 1989, that Hohn went but Hohn had worked call up in 1987 and 1988. Of course 2 weeks and sometimes 3 weeks in a season in the replay booth has now allowed the on field games to drop to 114 or 121 games, so at most 30 plate jobs a year for FT versus 40 prior to 1979.

don't forget Hoye was in this mix right behind Drake who first went up in 1999 for a cup of coffee of 3 games, and then Guccione in 2000, followed by Hoye in 2003. Guccione made full time in 2009 with 1255 games already under his belt, and Drake followed with 1218 in 2010 and Hoye 734 in 2010. All 3 received only 2 years of credit, although Drake and Guccione had both worked over 1200 games as call ups. Thats why you might as well say Guccione is a 26 year veteran and Drake a 27 year and Hoye a 23 year. Seems like Knight starting in 2001 and working 676 call up games FT 2011 and Fairchild starting in 2004 and 561 call up games, FT 2010 also worked lots of call up games before getting FT status with only 2 years credit.

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Sure. If this was a squibber or “angry hornet” 🐝, chewing up the line, neither fair nor foul yet, and the fielder – F1 or F3 typically – approaches the ball to try and touch / play / field it fair, with the BR converging on him/her, and the BR interferes, then by all means, that’s INT. That’s not what happened, even in my mistakenly perceived / constructed scenario. Instead of it directly off the bat, I saw it chopped straight down and then arcing high in the air. If you’ll notice, the BR takes off for 1B directly, and F5 clips her from behind, with the ball perceivably over foul territory, by that point. And you’re saying we should call the BR out for that?? By that logic, what keeps a bold F1 from running through a BR on a bunt attempt which is propelled foul, albeit slowly? Extending that logic further, if we have a bunt or chopper up the line, against a drawn in infield, and the F3 lets the ball go by him, in foul territory, but the BR runs right into him, are we awarding 1B on OBS? The batted ball isn’t technically foul yet, until it passes the bag on the foul side, or is touched in foul territory… right? That is the principle, is it not? Can we really award OBS on a foul ball?

To the credit of MLB, umpires are now getting the benefit of working call-up games before becoming a full-time MLU. I'm sure many of you remember the days when a newly hired MLU would go straight from AAA to the ML.

Interesting fact as a follow up. I remember this quite well as Guccione and Drake were up at the MLB level almost every day for years before being hired. Part of it was no openings and the agreement that gave Hallion, Hickox, and Davidson their jobs back. Guccione worked over 1,200 games as a call up and I believe when he was hired he only got 3 years of service time or something like that. https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/chris-guccione/