So that infamous Angel Hernandez game earlier this season - remember Kyle Schwarber getting kicked out? - produced a score of 85.3 percent with Umpire Auditor, but 96.1 by MLB’s grading system. It’s also worth noting that, as this informative ESPN article tells us, MLB’s official system gives umpires a 2-inch buffer around the actual strike zone. Those numbers are not readily publicly available, which is why Ump Scorecards and Umpire Auditor and others have become a popular resource. It’s important to point out that MLB uses its own set of umpire ratings, as collectively bargained with the MLB Umpires Association, and those are what MLB uses as a guide to choose postseason umpire assignments. Via Umpire Auditor, Eddings ranked 80th of 92 qualified umpires, with a correct call rate of 90.8 percent.īaseball fans, it seems, should not have been surprised at a bunch of missed calls.
84 among the 96 umpires who worked at least one game behind home plate during the 2022 season, with an accuracy of 92.4 percent. On the Ump Scorecard website, you can search each individual umpire’s performance - here’s the explanation of the methods and research the site uses - and a quick sorting of the Accuracy column shows that Eddings ranked No. The question is this: Should we be shocked that Eddings’ ball/strike accuracy was so low? We’re not here to talk about robot umpires today, but instead, to take a look at the umpires who have been given ball/strike duties so far in the postseason. The accuracy number under 90 percent might as well have been accompanied by flashing lights and blaring alarms. I remember seeing that tweet pop up on my timeline as I was sitting in the press box during the Phillies-Cardinals game in St. Check out the visualization.įinal: Rays 1, Guardians 2 #RaysUp // #ForTheLand #TBvsCLE // #CLEvsTB #Postseason That’s … not what you want in a tightly contested playoff game after a 162-game regular season. MORE: TSN’s baseball experts make picks for every postseason series
According to Umpire Auditor, another tracker of umpire performance, Eddings missed 18 calls, or 17.3 percent. To put it another way, Eddings got 11.1 percent of the calls wrong. According to Ump Scorecards, the website/Twitter account that tracks umpire performance, Eddings missed 12 of the 108 ball/strike calls in the game, won by Cleveland. The very first game of the 2022 postseason, with the Guardians hosting the Rays, was seen by many as Exhibit A as to why baseball needs “robot umpires” calling balls and strikes.ĭoug Eddings, a veteran umpire who made his MLB debut way back in 1998, did not have his finest day calling balls and strikes.
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