2026 : Around the League



CB Bucknor called a guy out at first for not touching the bag. Problem is he couldn't have done so more clearly. Turns out CB wasn't even looking at the bag. How is this not a fireable offense. Literally cheating. What does an umpire have to do to get fired? Take a dump on the mound. Players and coaches shouldbfet to vote every year for 1 ump to be demoted and AAA managers should vote the same but demote 1 and promote 1. Do that for each level every year. Bucknor will be jumping Teeball in a few years. I actually would worry that the minor league managers would object to Bucknor being sent to AAA and would in turn vote for their worst umpire to send to us as retaliation.
 
cajunrevenge said:
Ladies and gentlemen and Escheff.. we have a trade. With the Angels for AAAA RHP Victor Meredos. Has a good slider. Throws hard but FB sucks. Might find some success if they can improve his FB shape. He has options so he probably is emergency P depth for rotation and pen.
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250k international money.

Not sure which signing period.
 
I want to make a suggestion for ABS. There should be a number where if an ump has this many balls/strikes overturned in a game both teams get unlimited challenges the next time that ump calls balls and strikes. Being that they get unlimited challenges he could keep hitting that number over and over. The reason for this is what happens when a team loses their ABS challenges and the ump decides to punish them the rest of the game by making bad calls.


I am also starting to wonder if behind the plate is not the best vantage point for the ump. Wouldnt the second base ump really have a better view?



Another suggestion. If an umpire misses 20 calls in a game they get ejected. Thats 20 missed calls not 20 ABS challenges.
 
Eh. MLB is going to transition and adopt full ABS on every call in a few years. Said this the other day. Tennis first implemented hawkeye as a challenge system. It started I believe mid 2000's on hard courts. Now the tech is used on grass, clay, etc.

The beginning of this decade, big tournaments started eliminating line judges and just went full hawkeye for every shot now. And now pretty much every major televised tennis tournament owrth a damn, has eliminated line judges and uses hawkeye. Clay tournaments don't because the ball leaves a mark on the dirt and the traditionalists still want that.

But in MLB the umpires are much more scrutinized. In tennis the chair umpire could overrule a line judge's call without a player challenging, In MLB the home plate umpire can't overrule himself.

In a few years the balls and strikes will be called automatically and fed in to the home plate umpire's ear via headset and they'll just do the hand gestures for show.

MLB just wants the umps to get scrutinized so it will be easier for them to do full ABS (and still have umpires, just not for balls and strikes). Public will accept it in a few years.
 
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