UMPIRE RATINGS.

UMPIRE RATINGS. Following up on yesterday’s post, here is a rating for accuracy in calling balls and strikes for each major league umpire. The percentages show that on average, the umpires miss about ten per cent of the calls on balls and strikes. They get a higher percentage of balls right because some balls miss by a yard and are easy to call. The best umpire gets 93.6 per cent of the calls right and the worst gets 86.8 per cent of the calls right. I think that baseball fans wrongly expect umpires to be close to perfect and get upset about any missed call. The article also shows that having individual umpire ratings be public information is not a disaster for the umpires.