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u got the WC and DS lineups. they have been notified if the 2025 umpire media guide still holds true?

some stats through the 17th--about 2 more plate jobs for most before season ends and could move the needle highest stats for 56 full time umpires working the plate for the season so far--28 umps needed for Wild Card (includes 4 in IR) and 28 needed for DS (includes 4 in IR) before moving on to LCS and WS. Visconiti 95.04, Ripperger 94.81, Moscoso ".54, Ceja ".51, Conroy .49, Morales .47, Tosi .40, MacKay .34, Tomlinson .31, Valentine .31, Hamari .25, Bacchus .21, Rehak .14, Tumpane .07, Gibson . 06, Libka .06, Wegner .02, Wolcott 93.97, Little .94, Merzel .90, DeJesus .85, Carapazza .81, Hanahan .78, Muchlinski .77, Additon .77, Hoye .67, Walsh .66, Reyburn .66, Tichnor .62, Barksdale .59, May .54, Beck .53, Lentz .51, Porter .50, Clemons .50, Livensparger .49, Rackley .45, Emil Jiminez .41, Wolfe .40, Guccione .39, Blaser .33, Bellino .33, Wills .29, Vondrak .29, Barry .25, Ramos .22, Whitson .21, Eddings .20, Baker .18, Miller .17, Marquez, .10, Hudson .07, Barrett .06, Miller .03, Blakney 92.92, Ortiz 92.90 courtesy of ump scorecards and yes there could be mistakes and misspellings etc. sorry if that happened. E on the stat copier. added 9/23--and this past sunday or monday at the latest, per mlb 2025 media guide, umpires for the Wild Card and Division Series must be notified one week before the end of the regular season of their assignments, unless the policy changed, and that will also be the pool of candidates for the LCS and WS. now, has someone been on concussion protocol or other reason and forced to miss a WC or DS, but did get an LCS assignment, who knows. and those who do not have the plate before the season ends or have replay, and do not work the plate in the WC or DS, and then get game 6 or 7 in an LCS or WS, have gone quite a while without working the plate at all.

but will it cause a ding (the call or the handling of the call this late in the season), and affect a possible post season assignment coming up. and of course could calls and situations all through this past season affect the upcoming 4 new crew chief selections for next year, and of the possible candidates for crew chief next year who/whom does not have a WS as part of their resume or a second one that would add to the resume.

after googling about umpires this is what some writer somewhere wants. what did the late jimmy buffett say??? umpiring from a different point of view https://triblive.com/sports/mark-madden-mlb-umpires-should-worry-more-about-crooked-eyesight-and-egos-than-caps/

Just asking Cincinnati down 17-0 asking for a pitch challenge in the 8th. is it being asked because u think HPU has had a lousy night when the team is still down 17-0 and you want to make him have to stay longer and send him a coded message without having to say a word, or is this a, i paid my dues in the minors, i will ask for a challenge whenever i want to. just like money ball and that 13-0 comeback that almost happened. could he not have just swung the bat at that pitch. maybe he would have got a hit since it was a strike, and he would not have had an o fer 4 night. kind of like little tommy and i paid my money, i will ask my questions. if the batter hits a ball to the moon and it bounces off the moon and lands in fair territory, is it a ground rule double or a home run or keep on playing as if it did did not hit the moon. but what if it hits a bird on the way to, or way back from the moon, or its hits the bird both on the way to and on the way back, what then. but i paid my dues, i will ask my questions.

and you had the call mentioned in this article below in the LCS in 2005 and then no playoffs again whatsoever until a one game wild card in left field in 2014 then until a DS in 2018. so lets be fair. where are all those videos and articles, especially videos of professional umpires of amateur players from college on down that are less than as umpires so we can compare and talk about them. https://www.ocregister.com/2005/10/13/eddings-blown-call-a-stinker/

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 added 9/12 - and in his first HP assignment 9/8 back from a vacation or a replay week, Mr. Miller missed the first 3 pitch challenges in a row, to make that 11 straight misses/overturns over a two game span before getting the other 2 challenges in that last game confirmed. it can happen to anyone, from a low rated umpire in the league to a high rated umpire with 5 world series under their belt and it could happen to all of us.

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.