What Timc C reports coincides with what I have heard from MLB and MiLB umires: Gucce is in, Drake is out.
But, bear in mind, this comes from active umpires. Not umpire supervisors. It doesn't take long for umpire supervisors to begin acting and thinking quite differently from how they did as active umpires. Witness that the MLB umpire camp in Compton will be instructed only by umpire supervisors and a scab or two, while the active MLB and MiLB umpires sit this year out.
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