How this Bay Area man became MLB’s exlusive manufacturer of rosin bags
Dave Phillips’ journey from an Alameda screenprinter to the exclusive producer of rosin bags for Major League Baseball ...
'Banana Ball' Goes Big League at Truist Park
The Savannah Bananas brought their signature blend of heart, humor, and chaos to Truist Park, turning the Atlanta Braves' ...
How this Bay Area man became MLB’s exclusive manufacturer of rosin bags
Dave Phillips’ journey from an Alameda screenprinter to the exclusive producer of rosin bags for Major League Baseball ...
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.
Sports Illustrated5d
MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect ...
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, ...
New York Magazine5d
Is This the Last Season Baseball Umpires Really Matter?
The recently retired umpire Jim Reynolds, now MLB’s umpire supervisor, tells a story that illustrates what a hall of mirrors ball-and-strike calling has become: “I had one conversation with a ...