GDT 10/19/23 Philadelphia Phillies (Suárez, R) @ Arizona Diamondbacks (Pfaadt)

[bkeich]

This is VERY interesting. Iassogna was ranked 79th of 92 umpires during the regular season. There are a total of 24 umpires needed for the wildcard series, 24 for the LDS series, 12 for the LCS, and 6 for the World Series. If Iassogna was ranged 79 of 92, why did MLB pick him for the postseason? MLB needs 24 umpires (plus a few in case of injury or personal absences), so why wouldn't MLB pick the top 24-30 umpires? Iassogna should be no where near the postseason unless it's as a spectator.

I would agree, but there is more to being an umpire than balls and strikes. Control of the game is a hard one to categorize, and that is arguably the most important part of an umpires job, especially whoever you are going to have as the crew chief.

I think safe / out calls have become less important since they can now be fixed by review, but honestly I would still say they have some importance because sometimes a call is made and the play continues. Going back and fixing it after wards doesnt always fix the problem in those cases.

To me it would be best to have reviewable balls/strikes, but that is still a couple years away. Until then I would maybe rather see the league appoint the best crew chiefs and the evaluation put in the best other guys (balls / strikes, safe/out, other calls). The crew chief does not necessarily have to be a umpire on the field, they could just come out for "organizational" issues.

[MichaelJackSchmidt]

Adding the umpires for the rest of the NLCS:

I used https://umpscorecards.com/umpires/ for this data.

[BostonRoss]

In the second half of the season they only scored zero or one runs six times. In the first half, 11.

I need to get a life, but I checked the season results on baseball-reference.com. I came up with 15 0/1 run games in the first half (89 games), and 7 in the second half (73 games). So they did indeed improve though of course chopping up the season means we are looking at smaller sample sizes. Still, even in the second half they scored 0 or 1 in 10% of the games, and we are entering postseason game #10. So being shut down once isn't surprising though who shut us down may be. Then again, most of the pitchers who did hold the Phillies to 0 or 1 runs were not ace-types like Burnes. There were Strider, Stroman, Kirby, and Senga, but a lot of middling to bad ones (Kyle Feltner, anyone?). One of them was Bryce Elder, lol.

[EDmuch]

Has Soto been kidnapped? w I don't think we have even heard his name since the first game against the the Braves.

[bkox]

Has Soto been kidnapped? w I don't think we have even heard his name since the first game against the the Braves.

He got the final out of the 8th inning in game 4 against the Braves

[zambonir]

And he pitched badlly in that Game 1: a hit, a walk and 1/3 IP. Wasn't so great in the 7-1 Marlins game either, even if he didn't have to be: 2 hits 1 R 1 IP. He's just not a guy you can trust for three batters, he either needs to finish an inning (against whatever lefty you want him on) or it has to be low-leverage.

[zambonir]

I need to get a life, but I checked the season results on baseball-reference.com. I came up with 15 0/1 run games in the first half (89 games), and 7 in the second half (73 games).

Were some of those only-scored-1-run games wins? Equally possible I miscounted (in fact I just did it again and got 13 for the first-half) but I only looked at the "L"s. I get it though, 1 run is 1 run.

[BostonRoss]

Yes, some were wins.