Salary: $300,000 Average pay per game: $1,852 Playoff bonus: $17,500 plus expenses World Series bonus: $20,000 plus expenses MLB employs 19 full-time crews of four umpires each, equalling 76 total.

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Athletics outfielder Seth Brown made a strange bit of MLB history in Friday's win over the Seattle Mariners-- thanks to an odd blunder from the umpire ... the announcing crew missed the blunder.

To me, it’s the pinnacle of this career,” Carapazza said on being promoted to crew chief. “To be able to go out and lead ...

I need a shot. Give me my chance,’ ’’ head groundskeeper Roger Bossard said. “Then after about an hour of work, I got ...

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 ...

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

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