The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're awarded first base after four balls in at at-bat. Brown, however, took five ...
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!
This goes even for the highly trained eyes of major-league umpires. The human element is for players on the field, not the fair adjudication of the game. The challenge system is far better than ...
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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 ...
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 ...
A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect ...
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