Opposing teams unite to rally around baseball umpire with cancer
In sports, sometimes there are things that are bigger than the game, as was the case between two high school baseball teams.
Former First Baseman Keith Hernandez Dumbfounded By First Base Umpire’s Strange Positioning
In the image above, Tom Hanahan shows the positioning that is usually taken when an umpire is working first base. Which is ...
Blue Jays’ Roden gets learning experience, lifetime memory in debut
Alan Roden's second major-league at-bat offered a learning experience and also a lifetime memory. David Singh spoke to the newest major-leaguer following his Blue Jays debut.
MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
Announcer stunned by umpire's behavior
Keith Hernandez played more than 2,000 MLB games at first base, and he’s in his 20th season working as a TV analyst on New ...
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'I've Never Seen That!' - Keith Hernandez Doesn't Hold Back On MLB Umpire
Another MLB season means another six months of Keith Hernandez musings. The former New York Mets first baseman forms one of ...
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Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.
A spring training’s worth of the automated ball-strike challenge system: Are robot umps coming to MLB?
The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) ...
Teams successful on 52.2% of ball/strike challenges during spring training robot umpire test
Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...
What the data from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test says about baseball’s future
Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...
Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up
The sport has seen a flurry of rule adjustments in just the past decade and a half, with more on the horizon. America's ...
The Philly area’s oldest umpire is 82 and spends his days calling strikes and asking sports history questions
Since he was a child, Cherry Hill resident Richard Glazer has loved baseball. Now at 82, he spends about six months a year as ...