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 ...

Blue Jays manager John Schneider came out to state his case, and that's when we overheard the discussion between the ump and ...

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

Terry Dolan, beloved umpire and volunteer, was killed in a car crash last summer. But now his name will live on at the fields ...

Baseball is full of situations ... making calls in simulations on the field. It’s a delight for the instructors, all current or former umpires, now role-playing as frustrated skippers and ...

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 ...

1952 — Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin of the New York Giants broke his ankle in an exhibition game. Irvin played just 46 games that season. 1976 — The Oakland Athletics trade two key members from ...

And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in ... James Earl Jones’s point about baseball in Field of Dreams is that it helps mark time in a changing ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!