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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, December 29, 2022Sources: 10 MLB umps retiring, most since ‘99
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Posted: December 29, 2022 at 03:43 PM | 14 comment(s)
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1. Jose is an Absurd Sultan Posted: December 29, 2022 at 03:46 PM (#6111207)I also dont remember him ever being bad, which is also a plus.
Of the 10 umpires that are retiring this year, seven of them called balls and strikes in 2022. All seven were among the 12 worst umpires in the league either by consistency or by accuracy.
I am too lazy to do an actual stats calculation here, but this seems unlikely to be mere coincidence. Is it possible that MLB "nudged" them out a bit? I am also too lazy to look up the collective bargaining between MLB and the umpires union, but does it provide MLB enough leverage to say something like "Look, you are not getting the job done and, at your age it is unlikely that will you greatly improve. If you keep working, you will stop getting plum assignments, will be barred from the playoffs, might be stripped of crew chief privileges, etc. so why not just retire now and take your pension rather than continue to flounder and end up in a spot that will be embarrassing to you?"?
Where would you put nobody-could-possibly-be-certain-at-live-speed pitches, the ball-and-strike equivalent of came off the base for 0.15 seconds.?
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