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. ShoeGrit posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:53 PM # hit 0 | hit 0In late 2005 a bunch of us got invited to meet with Rizzo, and Jim Cassandro, who was heading up statistical research for the D backs at the time. Nick Piecoro, the beat writer for the D backs was also there.
It was great.....there were about 10 of us, we got to sit in the conference room right above the ballpark where they kept the World Series trophy at the time. We got to ask a lot of questions about how players were evaluated, guys coming up from the minors, and all that good stuff. Glad to see how much he has evolved with regards to modern analysis. He didn't reject it by any means, even back then, but clearly he has embraced it at a much higher level these days.
He was pretty cool, and of course we were all pretty bummed out when he didn't get the AZ GM job, but we thought that Josh Byrnes was a good choice too. Glad to see good things happening for him and the Nationals.
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