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my guess is that the comeuppance u might be seeking will be in the form of no playoff assignments whatsoever, which will end the streak of having a DS, or LCS, or WS every year since 2018. seems like that was the punishment for another pitcher incident in the past in May of 2022 which was a lot earlier in the year when that happen. I would imagine MLB does not want this situation and negative publicity, especially happening only a month before post season, to possibly be on the tip of every announcers tongue to mention and talk about, before the start of every game of a post season assignment if they were to be chosen for a playoff assignment. now an umpire/former sheriff tackling a streaker in April for running on the field, would be an entirely different situation for not wanting to possibly take the fans minds off the coming post season.

just use full ABS like the umpires wanted for ball strike. use the new check swing technology for check swing or not. use the infrared technology to help with HBP or ball off the foot. there will be a plethora of other work at the plate. keeping the count. timing infractions or not, balks or not, catchers interference or not, fair foul or not, pitcher trapping ball hit back to them or not, runners lane violation or not, safe out at the plate or not, placement of runners, etc. When ABS goes down with a tech problem, then the umpires can call the rest of the game ball/strike like they do now. and did the SEC use the ball strike technology that we know they have, and we know they have it, to pick the best umpires ball/strike wise to call the SEC tournament. other than just go by the misses, even if un-challeged, you could tighten up the zone on who/whom you pick for the tournament by taking the distance missed on each miss ball or strike, and divide it by the total number of pitches called to get the best umpires that have the least amount of distanced missed by (DMB) and chose them to work the tournament and be the leader in this area.

would it not help in a scouting/supervisor situation. all the umpires at a level come to the supervisor, rather than the supervisor chasing the crews. you could see 45 guys in low A work the plate, 45 in high A work the plate, and 45 in AA work the plate, much like the MLB area observers seeing most all of the crews as they come to their area. added below also a thought at the AAA leagues (not saying it is true, just a thought) comes to mind with the veteran call ups in the IL or PCL. if they are veterans in there home league so to speak for years, it looks like they had been shifting some of them to the opposite league after 4 years anyway, since they hardly got argued with, compared to new guys, by that home league they were in. when they had to switch leagues, the new league managers, might, be more inclined to argue with them a little more (a la aaron boone) than their old home league would have, having not seen them. and that would create more, how do you handle situations instances, than you would get if you had stayed in your same old home league forever. so the supervisors and observers evaluating in the new league got to see more of your, handling situations abilities, and other abilities since you were new. now that everyone moves through all leagues they are all seen on both coasts it sounds like, AAA on down.

where's all the venom that was spewed at bucknor for, missing, 6 out of 8 ABS challenges. cc miller missed every single one, 8 out of 8, on the same amount of 8 challenges or 100% misses yesterday. let's not play favorites and pick on some (like boone picking on the young guys, (call ups), to argue with) while giving others (with the possibility of receiving an upcoming 6th WS) a free pass. game has been over since 4 to 5pm. why no post here yet. https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/umpire-bill-miller-goes-0-8-abs-challenges-reds-10-8-win-cubs-wrigley-field?msockid=0709b428f05f632c31e0a3ecf10a6237

so? zone is from middle of plate and not the front as to where it starts like MLB? and are they using ELC (Electronic Line Calling) ie Hawkeye 3D tracking like in tennis or trackman radar tracking. Hawkeye was the choice for SEC tournament last year.

so are they taking off that extra basically .22 to .24 on each side 1.43-1.47 radius at the middle and saying that the known error rate of .10 to .50 on trackman or any other company, will just knock the above out and just call it even at 1 inch extra on each side on the above out. it will be great when we get to see in print the same scores like in MLB ump scorecards and i would expect them to be pretty much the same. but, it gives a chance to use the numbers for post season picks if they so choose or not. and the 3 challenges is great (like 3 strikes and your out). that means if you go 50/50 starting with team getting the first third and 5th challenge overturned you will get at least 6 challenges and the other team does the same at least 6 to 12(if you are getting them all correct) missed pitches would get covered.

apparently crews in AA are switching leagues during the season. what is this all about. letting them see all the MLB organizations, rather than just the ones in one league all year. when were the rest of us going to be let in on this new development or did we miss the memo. so what's the scoop. just AA doing this or is A ball doing this. is anything else going on? just found it in AA looking through some box scores.

save it for the big leagues if you ever make it that far. and if you don't make it that far blame the scouts. they obviously don't know what they are doing if they missed an obvious phenom like you. why are the adults teaching this. what type of role modeling from the adults is this. is this how it is in real life, work, business and everything else in life. just teaching cheating everywhere or you are a "loser" in life. if you are not cheating you are not trying. blame it on the role model adults in the room, just look in the mirror. well, come on, just admit it. that's really all it is or it wouldn't happen at all. https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/little-league-world-series-sign-stealing-controversy-erupts-second-straight-year?msockid=12ce38a553216a1d006e2f1d52906bf1

and he is working towards tying that more modern day (80's on) record of 6 WS's in a career with Montague, Davis, and West. And the record shows WS in 2017, 2020, 2023 so an upcoming 2026 selection to tie the record could definitely be in the works.

maybe this started it, or they are going back to the red coat days when AL used it a lot. https://larrybrownsports.com/baseball/umpire-joe-west-hit-throw-stolen-base/468407

it happens to the best that have a lot of post season assignments. don't want to be picking on others that don't get them and not show the special events guys when a conundrum occurs or a claustramess for them crops up. what would happen if umpire had been in the infield grass. is that illegal in this situation or is there a choice. and hasn't somebody mentioned, what we permit we promote in the insuing aftermath from the pitcher to the umpire. should it be handled this way at all levels of play. what would or would not be expected for the umpire to do when the pitcher did what he did and not when the umpire had his back turned nor did the pitcher at other levels of play, MiLB on down to little league. https://www.totalprosports.com/mlb/reds-caleb-ferguson-umpire-bill-miller-confrontation-viral-video/

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.

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.

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.