MLB Umpires-How bad are they?

[upsbob13]

I was watching Yanks-A's last night and veteran umpire Derryl Cousins has got to kidding with his strike zone. He is one of the most liked ump's in the majors but come on. There was a called third strike on Granderson that hit the chalk line of the opposite batters box, a good 6 inches off the plate. When Gardner was clearly hit on the back of his hand he missed that at first until Gardner showed him the mark from the ball. He kept calling for more baseballs from the visitors dugout and actually turned the wrong way looking for the ball boy on several occasions. Maybe it is time to head out to greener pastures.

[asdf]

Originally Posted by upsbob13

I was watching Yanks-A's last night and veteran umpire Derryl Cousins has got to kidding with his strike zone. He is one of the most liked ump's in the majors but come on. There was a called third strike on Granderson that hit the chalk line of the opposite batters box, a good 6 inches off the plate. When Gardner was clearly hit on the back of his hand he missed that at first until Gardner showed him the mark from the ball. He kept calling for more baseballs from the visitors dugout and actually turned the wrong way looking for the ball boy on several occasions. Maybe it is time to head out to greener pastures.

Maybe it's time to take this to a Fanboy site, Mr. Fanboy.

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by upsbob13

I was watching Yanks-A's last night and veteran umpire Derryl Cousins has got to kidding with his strike zone. He is one of the most liked ump's in the majors but come on. There was a called third strike on Granderson that hit the chalk line of the opposite batters box, a good 6 inches off the plate. When Gardner was clearly hit on the back of his hand he missed that at first until Gardner showed him the mark from the ball. He kept calling for more baseballs from the visitors dugout and actually turned the wrong way looking for the ball boy on several occasions. Maybe it is time to head out to greener pastures.

Tough being a Yankee fan this year, isn't it? Well go cry on a Yankee website, not here.

[turnit]

It's not that hard. They are in first place.

PS-I don't agree with the OP

[Adam]

Originally Posted by upsbob13

I was watching Yanks-A's last night and veteran umpire Derryl Cousins has got to kidding with his strike zone. He is one of the most liked ump's in the majors but come on. There was a called third strike on Granderson that hit the chalk line of the opposite batters box, a good 6 inches off the plate. When Gardner was clearly hit on the back of his hand he missed that at first until Gardner showed him the mark from the ball. He kept calling for more baseballs from the visitors dugout and actually turned the wrong way looking for the ball boy on several occasions. Maybe it is time to head out to greener pastures.

[Rich Ives]

Originally Posted by upsbob13

I was watching Yanks-A's last night and veteran umpire Derryl Cousins has got to kidding with his strike zone. He is one of the most liked ump's in the majors but come on. There was a called third strike on Granderson that hit the chalk line of the opposite batters box, a good 6 inches off the plate. When Gardner was clearly hit on the back of his hand he missed that at first until Gardner showed him the mark from the ball. He kept calling for more baseballs from the visitors dugout and actually turned the wrong way looking for the ball boy on several occasions. Maybe it is time to head out to greener pastures.

One missed pitch? WOW! You do know there are tracking systems that report the accuracy to the umpires do you not?

Yep - he missed the Gardner hit - a glancing blow with almost no change in direction.

Of course you know that the home team's side of the field is about 50-50 as to which side they use so gettting confused might just be possible.

Yankee fan for over 60.

[Rich]

Looking at the Pitch f/x data, Cousins does like the outside pitch against LH batters. Of course, I couldn't possibly care one way or another.

[MIZFKU]

Where are y'all seeing this MLB Umpire stat system? I'd like to check that out of it's possible

[Rich]

Do some digging around for the strike zone tool on brooksbaseball.net

[seenitall]

UPSBob13, I guess you got your answer from this crowd. But I won't beat you up about it. I've come to expect such things from the peanut gallery and accept it is a reality that we have to deal with / or not deal with.