Years ago, I remember listening to the start of a MLB game where the announcer was discussing the typical calls made by that particular home plate umpire as well as how wide HIS strike zone was. I’m thinking, why are we still in this “medieval” era where we have to rely more on the human aspects of umpires when we came to watch the human activities of the players? The game has been evolving for years, why can’t this aspect evolve as well?

@dyv_21

2 ай бұрын

Makes it interesting

1:50 to Winn was literally in the other batters box lol

7:50 was a good call though. It was in the displayed strike zone.

Missing the strike zone by an entire glove width should immediately get you demoted to umpiring little league.

What's wrong with 7:52 ? 😂

@markharbaugh4445

6 ай бұрын

I'm not catching what was wrong with that pitch either.

Wrong calls are one thing, it's the level of ego and smugness in which so many of them defend these obviously bad calls that takes it to an infuriating level.

At some point we have to admit that it’s not always on the ump. 90% of these were the catcher framing a pitch cleanly. Complain about that too

@Younggun24232

6 ай бұрын

And also without that little box telling you where the ball was half of you wouldn’t know the difference and have never played ball so stfu

@jaybarbagli6949

3 ай бұрын

100%

@baileydc

22 күн бұрын

Still up to the Ump to "see" the pitch to the glove

and how many are Angel?

Bet angel Hernandez are 101 of them

@markharbaugh4445

6 ай бұрын

I think you are low balling there.

This is a video on the need for robo umps

With Angel Hernandez in the thumbnail and the title is “worst 100 calls”, I’m guessing the video is from ONE game. When the catcher moves his glove 18” to fame the pitch, you’d think the umpire could see that and know it’s outside the strike zone.

This is hard to watch.

Would’ve been a much better video if it wasn’t just balls and strike calls

@filthydingers

7 ай бұрын

Right on, great point. Long offseason, I’ll work on something

@Stormsfury777

6 ай бұрын

In fairness, most on field calls can be challenged/reviewed.

@c1tedgames971

6 ай бұрын

@@Stormsfury777 yea but here me out: a compilation of really bad calls, even if they’re overturned. I want to see godawful calls made on the field that had to be overturned

@Stormsfury777

6 ай бұрын

@@c1tedgames971 I have no problem seeing on field really bad calls compilation either.

@dwaynehoward240

6 ай бұрын

​@@filthydingers3 homer games with a grand slam

bad calls but some of these were actually very good frames

More like maybe 60 bad calls and 40 bad pitch track boxes.

@brenthauer8365

4 ай бұрын

“The official strike zone is the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants -- when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at a pitched ball -- and a point just below the kneecap. In order to get a strike call, part of the ball must cross over part of home plate while in the aforementioned area.” In many of these videos where the ball is “high” the box barely reaches up to their belt line. It should be considerably higher than that per the MLB definition.

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U know I really find it funny at how everybody's so east to judge an umpire if they think they can do the job suit up an see it u can do it but u can't an I have been umpiring for going on to 10 years an my first year with the united Collegiate umpire anits not easy I know I may miss calls but that is when I get better if it was easy everyone would do it so if ur not going to suit up them shut up I'm sick of it

Honestly most of these you would probably call a strike as well, if you didn’t have the magic TV making a box and telling you where the ball crossed the plate. Great thing about being an armchair umpire is you don’t have to create a strike zone.

@rathofturkey

7 ай бұрын

Yeah you’re completely missing the point of the video. It’s not to make fun of the umpires. It’s to show that they need to be held accountable for their mistakes and if they can’t do it, the league needs to replace them with that magic TV box that is obviously much more consistently accurate.

@jonandra678

7 ай бұрын

Yes, normal people might. People that have thousands of hours of training shouldn't be missing balls and strikes by an entire glove width.

@PhilTeoli

7 ай бұрын

@@jonandra678case and point, the newer umpires are much more accurate. The old guys are bad

Catchers fault on a lot of these.

This is similar to an artist practicing let say, painting for decades. Then in the middle of a masterpiece (an at bat) someone urinates all over it. Take this subjective aspect of the game away so these athletes can have fair at bats.

The problem with a lot of these “bad” calls is they’re based on the TV broadcast box. That box is invariably wrong, especially when it comes to the height of the strike zone. According to MLB the rule book strike zone is “the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants -- when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at a pitched ball -- and a point just below the kneecap”. But if you look at TV strike zone boxes the top of the zone is usually around the batter’s belt when it should be three or four inches above the belt. 95% of these supposedly missed calls above the strike zone box are actually rule book strikes, and should be called as such.

MLB needs to make framing the pitch illegal. The catcher shouldn't be allowed to move his glove into the strike zone.

@LIN_3W

7 ай бұрын

Why

@rathofturkey

7 ай бұрын

Because it hides the actual pitch result, duh!

@LIN_3W

7 ай бұрын

@@rathofturkey it’s an art of catching duh!

@LIN_3W

7 ай бұрын

@@rathofturkey also get the call right the first time duh!

@LIN_3W

7 ай бұрын

@@rathofturkey also u can make a catch not move is glove most catchers now literally is a reaction just to frame the ball bc they been taught that there whole life duh!