Jon Miller on Minor League Umpires

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Mon Jun 30, 2008, 01:05pm

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My question is, why would MLB assign two minor league umpires to the same game? I realize that Drake logs as many or more MLB games as a full-time ump, but common sense says that you spread out the "part-timers" amongst several crews so that they have the "full-timers" to help them out.

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