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.
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Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.
The Philly area's oldest umpire is 82 and spends his days calling strikes and asking sports history questions
Richard Glazer, 82, will put on his blue shirt and start his 28th year as a baseball umpire, now with the Tri-State Elite ...
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Man behind the mask: Bruce Lazaruk begins 50th season as baseball umpire
Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...
Former First Baseman Keith Hernandez Dumbfounded By First Base Umpire’s Strange Positioning
In the image above, Tom Hanahan shows the positioning that is usually taken when an umpire is working first base. Which is ...
Robot umpires take to the field for baseball's spring training | The Excerpt
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...
Teams successful on 52.2% of ball/strike challenges during spring training robot umpire test
Major League Baseball said Wednesday that 617 of 1,182 challenges were successful in the 288 exhibition games using the ...
Four MLB Opening Day games to watch. Plus, reviewing the robot umpires
This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...