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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Apr 30, 2023; Mexico City, Mexico; Home plate umpire Pat Hoberg (31) calls an out in the fifth inning during a MLB World Tour game between the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants at ...