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https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-umpires-for-the-2026-world-series-presented-by-capital-one-announced Could Gibson, Wolf and Reyburn be in line for one of those for CC spots next year.

seen in the Arizona Fall League no AFL=no MLBU Evin Johnson, Sean Sparling, Charlie Welling, Trever Mathews, Denver Dangerfield, Matt Blackborrow, Eliott Melton, Derek Pacheo, Thomas Fornarola, Steven Rios. Jr., Joe McCarthey, Kellen Martin. Fornarola, Weiling, Johnson, and Dangerfield worked the Triple-A National Championship Game. sorry for bad spellings.

so why doesn't anyone like to call those n-cutter balks, to be called a balk. those flinches, knee breaks, spin moves with no step, the step to the 45 angle, all prevent the runner from getting a decent lead or force him to stay closer to the base which negates the bases being moved closer, and cuts down on the excitement of the stolen base, and no, i do not want the players with 4.5+ speed to first, to become famous 96 base stealing threats. when has anyone been close to even the old ty cobb record of 96 stolen bases in a year. guess the pitchers and catchers with better cs rates are the winners. they are trying, so they say, to create more action, doesn't that give umpires more business also, so with all these don't call balks, which automatically keep runners closer, when are we going to see the ty cobbs, maury wills, vince colemans, ricky hendersons and more action again, and their records being challenged. or do we just want a super slow pitch softball type of game.

think .44 is best look for whether a slight knee pop, or flinch happened or not. i will defer to bob davidson's good judgment. a flinch is just that and not as easy a call as a falling off the mound etc. easy calls, that even they get missed sometimes. in there with a strike or ball that miss by less than .1 or .01 of an inch. what, you not going to make calls or swallow the whistle. so, nobody's ever called a balk for someone stepping back off the mound or not and the correct call was just the opposit, balk or no balk or other balk moves. let someone who is without a missed balk call, obvious miss or not cast the first baseball. nice get of another possible or not flinch attempt or not situation. you r the best.

they did not block out adam becks game in the WC. so why the 4th. not a good look on this, especially when it can look like there was a certain reason they might have blocked which isn't fair to adam beck(like call ups being picked on by boone). crap happens and you never know when it will happen and it can happen to the best.

@Marcus6 - always appreciate this format provided. scott barry in 2018, bellino 2019, carapazza 2018, cuzzi 2019. will now look for anyone between 2021-2025 to see if there are others, Fairchild 2025, Fletcher 2023, Hoye 2025. and maybe they were in replay (or concussion protocol or injury as you mentioned) and not on the field, but without steve the ump comparison list like the one you showed plus adding the replay guys who knows. all the above are from retrosheet and being on the field. retrosheet does not supply replay officials for each special event, post season. bacchus, barksdale, beck in replay for lcs https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/bill-miller-and-mark-wegner-will-be-lcs-umpire-crew-chiefs/ar-AA2e0KFu?ocid=BingNewsSerp

without them throwing it to first and tagging him before he gets back, we will never know. and no i am not going with the point, i just saw delauter pick up the pace going back a little like trying to downplay he knows he did, without trying to be noticed. like i said, with no play we do not know if someone saw a flinch or shoulder move, etc. or not. either way is fine with me in my rocking chair. And a question. maybe i am flinching, but for you or Marcus. I am not seeing either of the National League games Sunday October 4, 2026 in Milwaukee or in LA with the ump scorecards statistics on that game 2 for both teams in the division series. Were those games somehow having the hawk eye system go down or what, and conveniently for both games on the same day. both games are showing as having been played on that day in the MLB scores for the day. What am i missing. i are not that smart. maybe there were no games on that day and i was pulling up last years scores or something.

tend to agree with you although i am sure we would like to see the camera going down the line from home and an overhead view or one coming in from right field with a close up. But, 'looks like he did' means both of us are getting scratched and blackballed for life if we call it in the games we work. for some reason any thing like an obvious flinch on a balk that anyone would call and people would agree with, if that type of reasoning is used on this type of play, you will get crucified, rather than be considered great gutsy call like that obstruction at third in the playoffs a while ago. and if an obvious flinch toward second is not considered as an "attempt" by the rule on this type of play, well then we should not call it as such either.

i would say anyone at all getting a recommendations from Ted Barrett, Paul Nauert and Marvin Hudson in which Pawol did get from all 3, along with others getting the 3's recommendations over the years, would have a very very very good chance of getting a very very very good look throughout their career path of possibly becoming a MLBU candidate or future MLBU. articles below if they are not paywall??? https://www.nfhs.org/stories/it-all-started-here-jen-pawol. article that mentions Nauert, and Hudson too https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2024/02/nj-women-set-to-work-spring-training-on-verge-of-breaking-mlb-umpire-gender-barrier.html so, is that 200 games the breakpoint i have been asking about for years, of getting a full 2 years service credit as a MLBU?? (as per the amount in the MLBU CBO which would have been bargained for).

did delauter "make an attempt" to go to second on the overthrow at first to double him up in the top of first in chicago. he went back to first kind of fast. @johnny08 might be the only one who can find the play and show it. gary darling, "I've called it an attempt for less than that" when asked about one of his partner's making that call. there was no play made on him, but just wondering if there had been a play and they tagged him before he got back to first, would anyone have called him out for making an attempt to go to second.

what a dirt bag, with the way he treated the collegiate umpires, and now in MLB. didn't go any different than a month earlier against the reds with the same HP umpire ccs ejection number #104. and in 104 it was the Reds who came back from being well behind to win the game. and i believe a request went out to call the check swings more like the future replay check swing technology parameters being tested and used in MiLB.

1--marvin hudson in video review if the associated press is correct and not fake news added later and after a year off, bill miller will be in the mix for an LCS but not the WS and a tie with a couple more recent umps with 6 WS and will A.M. join the more recent MLBU group with 6 WS since he has a DS right now and his last WS was in 2023 and will he be able to tie Al Barlick with 7 or even get more before retirement, or will they let the other CCs get a 2nd or 3rd WS. could Blaser get a WS this year and then a CC next year

but i imagine from this old 2004 contract in which the categories have still pretty much stayed the same, just the amount of money has changed over time, they are still receiving that $23,000 bonus, as long as the playoffs are played, and maybe/probably more after 22 years and 5 contracts later, with an negotiated enhanced pension 22 years later now, and an enhanced severance since 2004. https://a.espncdn.com/mlb/news/2000/0905/725407.html

article says season not post season, so i would assume none, but if word season includes post season we basically only have one more list to look at for a chance https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2026/07/05/jacob-misiorowski-all-star-game-brewers-rain-mlb/90805897007/ so to be fair, who on the major, mid major and low major Collegiate umpire conferences next year with a list, can we guess on how many will be working post season, or and a list of High Schools in each state with a list to chose from that to be guessing they will be working post season, or liitle league with a list to guess from that will be working post season. and could we get a list of those to guess from that will be new MLBU crew chiefs next year. and guess which ones of the below will get the new 7 jobs on the staff next year sleeve No./total prior yrs. as call up/total games after 2025 no#-maybe now# bold are new stats for 2026 with # worked as the PU and B/S averages John Bacon 70/7/426 17/92.0 Evin Johnson Brock Ballou 41/4/254 22/93.7 Louie Krupa 17/94.5 Steven Jaschinski 65/1/20 19/94.4 Felix Neon 8/92.5 James Jean 61/2/124 27/93.8 Austin Snow Edwin Jime(slash on e)nez 75/3/288 18/93.8 Sean Sparling Austin Jones 77/2/157 21/94.3 Pete Talkington Tyler Jones 39/1/24 24/94.4 Mitch Trzeciak Dexter Kelly 56/1/15 21/94.4 Bryan Van Vranken Jacob Metz 94/3/195 21/93.2 Charlie Welling Jonathan Parra 30/2/125 16/93.5 Dillon Wilson 11/95 Jen Pawol 95/1/20 13/92.1 Derek Thomas 53/3/314. 21/94.2 Willie Traynor 45/1/66. 32/93.9

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