[EveningStar]

Umpire Auditor - Businessweek - 2014 Umpire Ranking

[Yo-Yo]

83 vs. 86 percent? Give me a break. Not enough difference to matter.

[Controlling Legal Authority]

With the KC Royals in the mix you can bet that they will be pulling Derendiger out of retirement to work their games.

[Chuckster]

Dodgers at St. Louis. Worst calls I ever saw.

[mikrofon]

That’s an interesting stat comparison .... It means that on the average, for any batter taking it to a full count, the odds are one of the pitches was called wrong.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Dubious strike zone abilities...? Yeah..that little electronic box makes them all look like idiots!

[Scoutmaster]

If you have any interest in how different umpires called pitches in the playoffs this year, The Postseason Strike Zone has an interactive visual of pitches and calls.

Umpires weren't charitable to pitchers when it came to the low end of the strike zone, Jerry Meals and Paul Schrieber in particular. Victor Carapazza didn't give high and tight.

[LibertarianLiz]

I don't know; but, as I was watching baseball during this past season, I was struck by the lousy calls and the frequency of lousy calls. They would call a strike, and then the little meter next to the box score would show where the ball was in the strike zone, and, invariably, it was no where near the strike zone.

I was seeing this so much more often this season, that I had to wonder if the older guys are retiring and the younger guys just haven't developed as precise an "eye" for the strike zone yet.

I remember an interview with pitcher Jamie Moyer, where he stated that he didn't care where an umpire's strke zone was, as long as it was consistent. I saw a lot of inconsistency in the strike zone this year.

[onedoug]

Stop crying and swing, for God’s sake.