Saturday, May 18, 2013
Phil Wood: It’s time for baseball to use technology to make sure umps get it right
(washingtonexaminer.com)
Phil Wood’s still honking…who knew?
Read More...This brings us back to balls and strikes, and the case of minor league ump—and big league fill-in—John Tumpane.
Tumpane was behind the plate May 12 when the Nationals played the Cubs.
Tumpane is a Triple-A guy who’s called up when a regular ump has a day off. He started getting major league assignments in 2010 when he was only 27 and apparently believes that close enough is good enough.
When a pitch is so far off the plate that the catcher makes no ...
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1. RMc and His Roster of Rubbish posted on January 15, 2013 at 08:26 AM # hit 0 | hit 0Why the hell not? You kids and your newfangled limits on pitchers, grow a pair!
So would the fans!
This is Mike Rizzo you're talking about. He'd shut down Strasburg t he hit his innings limit in Game 2 of the World Series, if that was the PLAN.
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