Playoff Umpiring Crews

[johnSandlin]

Just checked Joe West's website, and he has all of the Division Series umpirng crews, plus both League Championship Series Crews as well.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Opening in San Diego is Gerry Davis, Bill Welke, Brian Gorman, Greg Gibson, Wally Bell, and Marty Foster.

[SanDiegoSteve]

To save everyone the trouble of going to the website, here are the assignments:

Opening in Shea Stadium for the first round of the playoffs is: John Hirschbeck - Crew Chief, Ted Barrett, Eric Cooper, Ron Kulpa, Mike Winters, and Brian O'Nora

Opening in Yankee Stadium will be Tim McClelland - Crew Chief, Laz Diaz, Alfonso Marquez, Paul Emmel, Larry Poncino, and Larry Vanover

Opening in San Diego is Gerry Davis - Crew Chief, Bill Welke, Brian Gorman, Greg Gibson, Wally Bell, and Marty Foster

Opening in Minnesota is Randy Marsh - Crew Chief, Kerwin Danley, Mike Everette, Ed Rapuano, Tim Tschida, and Tony Randazzo

The American League Championship Series will be umpired by Gerald Crawford - Crew Chief, Hunter Wendelstedt, Darryl Cousins, Chuck Merriweather, Gary Cederstom, and Mike Reilly

The National League Championship Series will be umpired by Tim Welke - Crew Chief, Jim Joyce, Jerry Layne, Fieldin Culbreth, Jeff Kellogg, and Gary Darling

[TussAgee11]

No West....

interesting...

he made 2 controversial calls last year in the NYY LAA series, wonder if this played a part in it... probably not.

Just odd he wouldn't be in there, no?

[mattmets]

Not to play the "XXX should have made it over YYY" game, but how do 3 umpires (West, Nelson, Hernandez) go from WS assignments to none? Just seems odd.

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by mattmets

Not to play the "XXX should have made it over YYY" game, but how do 3 umpires (West, Nelson, Hernandez) go from WS assignments to none? Just seems odd.

As for the Angel thing... well...

he's not an MLB umpire, and should not be on the game's greatest stage.

JMO

[scottyman51]

Originally Posted by mattmets

Not to play the "XXX should have made it over YYY" game, but how do 3 umpires (West, Nelson, Hernandez) go from WS assignments to none? Just seems odd.

Wasnt it west,Eddings,and Hernandez...not nelson. Dougy eddings is just as bad as Hernandez....

[GoodwillRef]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

No West....

interesting...

he made 2 controversial calls last year in the NYY LAA series, wonder if this played a part in it... probably not.

Just odd he wouldn't be in there, no?

I thought that the MLB playoff assignments were done on a rotation basis and not on merit, I could be wrong. If it was done on merit we would see the same "really good" umpire working the WS every year.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

I THOUGHT THAT THE MLB PLAYOFF ASSIGNMENTS WERE DONE ON A ROTATION BASIS AND NOT ON MERIT? I COULD BE WRONG? IF IT WAS DONE ON MERIT WE WOULD HAVE THE SAME "REALLY GOOD" UMPIRES WORKING EVERY LCS AND WS EVERY YEAR LIKE THE NBA!

You've made 11 posts and nobody's told you to stop shouting?

[lawump]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

I thought that the MLB playoff assignments were done on a rotation basis and not on merit, I could be wrong. If it was done on merit we would see the same "really good" umpire working the WS every year.

You thought wrong. Done on merit, with the above cited rules (no back-to-back playoff rounds; no back-to-back world series). According to a (SF) Bay Area newspaper story printed on-line yesterday, MLB has 7 supervisors meet toward the end of the season to review each umpire's body of work for the season (quest-tec; handling situations; rules knowledge; pace of game; etc.) and then make the post-season selections.

[mattmets]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

I thought that the MLB playoff assignments were done on a rotation basis and not on merit, I could be wrong. If it was done on merit we would see the same "really good" umpire working the WS every year.

You say that last part like it's a bad thing.

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Opening in Shea Stadium for the first round of the playoffs is: John Hirschbeck - Crew Chief, Ted Barrett, Eric Cooper, Ron Kulpa, Mike Winters, and Brian O'Nora

That's my favorite crew for the opening round.

[mattmets]

I know it's early, but....if I had to pick a WS crew based on the DS umpires, they would come from this group:

McClelland (cc), Marquez, Everitt, Rapuano, Winters, Barrett, Bell, Davis

[CJN]

Originally Posted by mattmets

I know it's early, but....if I had to pick a WS crew based on the DS umpires, they would come from this group:

McClelland (cc), Marquez, Everitt, Rapuano, Winters, Barrett, Bell, Davis

Here's mine (its pretty similar):

McClelland (cc), Winters, Bell, Bill Welke, Rapuano, Davis

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Opening in Yankee Stadium will be Tim McClelland - Crew Chief, Laz Diaz, Alfonso Marquez, Paul Emmel, Larry Poncino, and Larry Vanover

Vanover's missed a couple tonight in Detroit. The Rodriguez play at third was close, but sure looked like ARod tagged him before Pudge got to the bag. The tag was high and maybe that influenced the call. Also called a ball down the line foul after white paint clearly flew up. Not his call, I think, but he had to give help and didn't have it.