MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
MLB Umpire and Everyone Else Totally Forgot the Count On Strangest Walk of Season
The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're ...
EssentiallySports on MSN3dOpinion
MLB Umpire Faces Major Backlash After 20 Blown Calls in Mets vs. Astros Showdown, Fans Demand Overhaul
Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...
Intelligencer on MSN5d
Is This the Last Season Baseball Umpires Really Matter?
Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.
USA Today12d
Robot umpires take to the field for baseball's spring training | The Excerpt
On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...