I see. I thought that they were totally going to the automatic zone. Hopefully, its just a matter of time until they do. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t save some romanticized view of the game with a home plate ump.
of course. but still, an ejection? that’s an abuse of power.
“Ball Hair. What we need is a strike here!”
According to Ump Scorecard.
This season so far. umps have been 94.2% accurate.
Which doesnt sound like much. But
Average MLB game has 152 called balls/strikes
143 are called correctly 9 incorrectly
Thats 0.5 balls per half inning or 1 per inning called WRONG each game.
Worst games dipping to the low 80% best games 100%
This has effected the games by 0.4 runs per game.
Heres the Game 2 of Tigers Cubbs for a i kid you not SLIGHTLY below average game
Like WTF is that strike zone
Looking at the Tigers games.
Through 66 games
539 total runs scored (for and against)
74.5 runs were given or taken away due to bad calls.
Thats 13.8% of total runs affected!
Thankfully however. Only 1 games total outcome gas been affected so far.
Game 4: 4/2/25
DET@SEA
112 Pitches Called
102 Correct Calls
Thats a VERY high 8.9% miss rate.
The calls mostly went against the Tigers.
Total runs effected was 1.51
The difference however was 1.09 in favor of Seattle.
Tigers Lost 3-2
Adjusted for missed calls
The game would have been
3.3 DET
3.21 SEA
So in theory the tigers COULD have WON
18 Games this season so far out of 987 games
1.82% of games affected
Thankfully no real trend one way or another in terms of a specific ump or team getting more favorable calls.
But as you can see the accuracy isnt all that bad on a few of these.
Like 5/25 TEX @ CHW ump was 96.3% accurate. Only 5 missed calls, but those missed were at critical parts of the game.
Texas won 5-4
But with correct calls
Chicago would have won (theoretically)
