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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...