The popular UmpireAuditor X (formerly Twitter) account reported that home plate umpire Lance Barrett missed 25 of the game’s 334 pitches. That’s a season-high by any umpire and the latest chapter in a ...

According to The Athletic, MLB changed how its home plate umpires are evaluated on their calls of balls and strikes. MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been ...

Advertisement By Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris In the winter, Major League Baseball negotiated a seemingly simple change in how home-plate umpires ... had far fewer issues with ...

According to the popular @UmpireAuditor X/Twitter account, Johnson’s 83.1% correct call rate is the worst single-game performance ... MLB doesn’t care.” According to Umpire Scorecards ...

Baseball fans want home plate umpire C.B. Bucknor fired after several missed calls in the Blue Jays-Guardians game.

Changes to the way Major League Baseball evaluates umpires has resulted in fewer called strikes on the edges of the zone through the first month of the 2025 season, reports The Athletic.

Miller, who has worked in the majors since 1997 and served as a crew chief since 2014, also holds the role of president of the MLB Umpires Association. Mistakes like Friday’s aren’t rare in ...

His performance, which mirrors previous ... and many are demanding immediate action from MLB to address these ongoing umpire issues. This controversy has brought the flaws in MLB officiating ...

Social media and improved pitch tracking have made it far easier to prove an umpire’s strike calls are incorrect. If anything, Estabrook’s performance is more reason for Major League Baseball ...

“Poor job performance requires remediation.” MLB umpire Lance Barrett in 2023Sergio ... Barrett’s crew ran into issues earlier in the series. First base umpire Alfonso Márquez incorrectly ...