Posts Tagged ‘Umpire Strikezone Score’

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Umpire Strikezone Scores

by Rick Swanson on April 13th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Posted In: Rick Swanson, Umpires

If you go to Brooks Baseball you will find a section called Umpire Strikezone Maps. There you will see all the pitches during any game that the home plate umpire needed to make a call on. The average is about 140, and you can break it down to left-handed batters and right-handed batters. You can […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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More Bad Umpires

by Rick Swanson on May 12th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Posted In: Boston Red Sox, Rick Swanson, Toronto Blue Jays, Umpires

Simply stated, some umpires are really good, and some are really bad.  For example, one day an umpire could have a Strikezone Score of .948, like Chad Fairchild did on 5/8.  John Hirschbeck on the other hand, was really bad on 5/3, posting a Strikezone Score of just .797. How can MLB allow this to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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It’s Time for Umpires to Use PITCH f/x

by Rick Swanson on July 11th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Posted In: Rick Swanson, Umpires

(update: strikezone plots added at 5:27pm) As umpiring appears to be devolving right before my eyes, I have been campaigning for baseball to allow PITCHf/x strikezone plots to be used inside each park, so that fans could see how bad some of these calls really are. Recently I spoke with MLB umpire supervisor, Steve Palermo, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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