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The umpire statistics were quietly and informally retired after the 2010 season, but you asked us to bring them back and that's what we've done.

In addition to statistics for the current year, you can now access historical seasons as far back as 1950.

Umpire statistics can be accessed by clicking Statistics > Sortable Statistics in the top navigation menu and selecting "Umpires Report" under the General heading. Or, you can click right here to access them directly.

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EricMeeker
10/01
Great stuff, Bradley Ankrom & the BP staff.
EricMeeker
10/01
Another helpful tool for baseball fans.
markpadden
10/01
Nice. Any chance of adding TAv to the table, and of allowing queries for multiple seasons (e.g., 2009-2011)? Thanks.
redsox2011
10/01
Looks like the Umps ave 33 games a year according to the stats page.That doesn't seem possible with only 82 Umps 162 game schedule and on most days, 60 are working.What did I miss?
ntallyn
10/01
I think they only count the times that the ump is working the plate. Roughly 3/4 of umpires are working on a given day, so the average ump works 120 games (give or take). 30 of those would be at the plate.
redsox2011
10/02
Thanks.This relates to their games behind the plate only. That's what I missed.
jdeich
10/02
Small wish list for this interesting new feature:

The big one would be merging umpire information with PitchFx data to see the percentage of strikes and called strikes. This is perceived to be the largest impact that an individual umpire's style impacts a game.

I noticed you can add Balks via 'Statistic Selection', but it should make the standard report, as it's a more direct decision of the umpires. These are (too) rare, but multi-year trends may emerge down the road.

Ejections (managers or players), if the data is available.

Base stealing information (SB, CS, Pickoffs) might be a good illustration of what pitchers feel like they can get away with.
bornyank1
10/02
The problem with balks (and ejections, if we have that data) is that the umpire reports are set up to consider what happens when an umpire is behind home plate. Balks and ejections can be called by another umpire, so I assume that would take some extra programming work. Not necessarily impossible, just noting that it would be a bit more complicated than simply adding a field.