Baseball, It's Time to Face Your REAL Umpire Problem
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Published 2022-11-18
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Script written and researched by Mac Douglass
All Comments (21)
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I've been saying this for years; combine the major and minor leagues umpires. With today's technology allowing for a good rating system, move the 5 worse umps down a league while moving the best 5 up. Do this every winter break. No one is fired but it does give incentive to do their best.
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Angel Hernandez has two estranged sons. Their names are Strike and Zone. He hasn't seen either one in years.
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another major issue is the umps' egos. they throw out players and managers for showing a slight disagreement of the umps strike zone.
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In his book Baseball is a Funny Game, Joe Garagiola writes that the best compliment an umpire can receive is after the game nobody knows his name.
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Those umps definitely do online sports gambling
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Great video. The league is slowly heading in the direction of robo umps, and it's because people are fed up with low-quality umpiring. The irony is that if the Umpires Union had any accountability, they would be able to improve their on-field performance and we might not need robo umps, so in a way, they're removing themselves from the game. The arrogance.
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Good umpires and referees need to be highlighted more. They are what make the game work.
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It’s a vicious cycle. The worst umps turn into the most egotistical umps because they know the union has their back and no one’s going to take their job away no matter how much they deserve it. Probably some Dunning-Kruger mixed in there too.
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I think it's also worth pointing out how often instant replay shows that they got the (incredibly difficult) calls right. Thank you for addressing this subject so fairly.
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The kind of farm system they have for umpires is actually insane. It just proves that they actually don’t have to fold to the union. If I was getting paid 2k per month and someone offered me 200k per year to abandon all loyalty to the union, I wouldn’t hesitate for a single second
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Both you and Foolish Baseball have had the best videos on Umpires this year. I love it. Keep up the great work.
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I think it’s worth noting that younger less experienced umpires perform better than older more experienced umpires
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As a Braves fan I saw first hand how Angel Hernandez was the cause of many ejections for Bobby Cox & Freddy Gonzalez over decades.
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One out of 76 positions opening up isn’t sustainable. Unless we end up with 95 year old umpires at the major league level! Now that would really be a problem, haha!
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You also need ball and strike tracking for minor league games. Then, you can get excellent ump performances there to get more attention, creating demand to bring up the good performers into the majors.
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Baseball umps are too old, fat, bitter, jaded, childish and hold grudges. I promise you, if you got younger, hungry umps dying to do that job and do it right, you'd see a HUGE improvement in games called. But noooo..the union fights for people like Angel Hernandez or fatty Joe West who had been doing it for like 40 years who would hold personal grudges and was completely comfortable knowing nothing could happen to him cause the union would back him
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Just subbed,turned on all notifications and liked nice videos keep it up I love watching you
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I like to use this analogy when talking about called strikes/balls, especially with older people/traditionalists who seem to defend umpires at all costs. If a baseball player had a fielding percentage of around 94%, they'd say that he's a bad fielder (I know. There are way better fielding metrics but bear with me). When umpires routinely scores below that on Umpire Scorecard, no one bats an eye. They both have their challenges, no doubt. But I think we all know which job is by far more difficult.
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I use to be against replays and automatic strike zone. I’ve changed my mind the last year tho and think this will help a lot with bad umps
