mlb umpire assignments 2021

Wild Card Game, Division Series umpires announced

Meals, west to lead wild card game crews; division series crew chiefs are barrett, hallion, holbrook and marquez.

Major League Baseball today announced the Major League Umpires who have been assigned to the 2021 Wild Card Games presented by Hankook Tire and the Division Series presented by Good Sam. 

Jerry Meals will be the crew chief for tonight’s Red Sox-Yankees AL Wild Card Game, which will air on ESPN, and Joe West will be the crew chief for Wednesday’s Dodgers-Cardinals NL Wild Card Game, which will air on TBS. The AL Wild Card Game crew led by Meals will include home plate umpire and regular season crew chief Mark Carlson, Jordan Baker, Ryan Blakney, James Hoye and Jansen Visconti. West, who will have home plate duties, will work with Ramon De Jesus, Laz Diaz, Alan Porter, Chris Segal and Jim Wolf in the NL Wild Card Game. The Replay Officials in the Wild Card Games will be regular season crew chief Larry Vanover and Stu Scheurwater.

The AL Division Series presented by Good Sam are scheduled to begin on Thursday, October 7th at Tropicana Field, where the Rays will play Tuesday’s AL Wild Card Game winner, and at Minute Maid Park, where the Houston Astros will host the Chicago White Sox. All ALDS games will be telecast exclusively by FS1 or MLB Network. The two crew chiefs assigned to the American League Division Series are Tom Hallion and Sam Holbrook. Holbrook will work the ALDS that involves the Rays along with Dan Bellino, Greg Gibson, Brian Knight, Ron Kulpa and D.J. Reyburn. Hallion’s crew, which includes Lance Barrett, Vic Carapazza, Chris Conroy, Chad Fairchild and Adam Hamari, will work the Astros-White Sox ALDS. 

The NL Division Series presented by Good Sam are scheduled to begin on Friday, October 8th at Oracle Park, where the San Francisco Giants will play Wednesday’s NL Wild Card Game winner, and at American Family Field, where the Milwaukee Brewers will host the Atlanta Braves. All NLDS games will be telecast exclusively by TBS. The two crew chiefs assigned to the National League Division Series are Ted Barrett and Alfonso Marquez. Barrett will work alongside Doug Eddings, Angel Hernandez, Pat Hoberg, Gabe Morales and Carlos Torres in the NLDS involving the Giants. Marquez’s crew, which includes Mike Estabrook, Will Little, Mike Muchlinski, Tony Randazzo and Quinn Wolcott, will work the Brewers-Braves NLDS.  The Replay Officials in the Division Series will be regular season crew chief Fieldin Culbreth, CB Bucknor, Chris Guccione and Adrian Johnson. 

A complete listing of the rotations through the Division Series accompanies this press release.

All games telecast on MLB Network, TBS, FOX and FS1 will be available to MLB.TV subscribers who are authenticated subscribers to the applicable network through a participating pay TV provider. ESPN Radio will provide live national coverage of all 2021 MLB Postseason games, beginning with the Wild Card Games. The 2021 Postseason schedule, subject to change, accompanies this press release and can be viewed in its entirety at MLB.com/postseason .

2021 WILD CARD GAME UMPIRE ASSIGNMENTS

TUESDAY’S RED SOX-YANKEES AMERICAN LEAGUE WILD CARD GAME ON ESPN: Game 1 Umpire Previous Postseason Assignments HP Mark Carlson 1 WC, 5 DS, 5 LCS, 2 WS 1B James Hoye 3 WC, 3 DS, 2 LCS, 1 WS 2B Jerry Meals (CC) 1 WC, 9 DS, 2 LCS, 2 WS 3B Jordan Baker 2 WC, 1 DS LF Ryan Blakney [1st Postseason] RF Jansen Visconti [1st Postseason]

WEDNESDAY’S DODGERS-CARDINALS NATIONAL LEAGUE WILD CARD GAME ON TBS:

Game 1 | Umpire | Previous Postseason Assignments HP Joe West (CC) 3 WC, 8 DS, 10 LCS, 6 WS 1B Alan Porter 2 WC, 5 DS, 2 LCS, 1 WS 2B Laz Diaz 1 WC, 7 DS, 3 LCS, 3 WS 3B Jim Wolf 2 WC, 5 DS, 4 LCS, 2 WS LF Chris Segal [1st Postseason] RF Ramon De Jesus [1st Postseason]

WILD CARD GAME REPLAY OFFICIALS: Stu Scheurwater and Larry Vanover.

2021 DIVISION SERIES UMPIRE ASSIGNMENTS

ALDS ON FS1/MLBN BETWEEN THE TAMPA BAY RAYS AND EITHER THE BOSTON RED SOX OR THE NEW YORK YANKEES:

Game 1 | Umpire | Previous Postseason Assignments HP Dan Bellino 1 WC, 6 DS, 1 LCS 1B D.J. Reyburn 1 WC, 2 DS 2B Sam Holbrook (CC) 1 WC, 6 DS, 4 LCS, 3 WS 3B Ron Kulpa 1 WC, 11 DS, 3 LCS, 1 WS LF Greg Gibson 3 WC, 9 DS, 5 LCS, 1 WS RF Brian Knight 2 WC, 3 DS

ALDS ON FS1/MLBN BETWEEN THE HOUSTON ASTROS AND THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX: Game 1 | Umpire | Previous Postseason Assignments HP Adam Hamari 2 WC 1B Chris Conroy 2 WC, 1 DS, 2 LCS 2B Tom Hallion (CC) 9 DS, 5 LCS, 1 WS 3B Vic Carapazza 1 WC, 4 DS, 1 LCS LF Chad Fairchild 1 WC, 5 DS, 2 LCS, 1 WS RF Lance Barrett 2 WC, 1 DS

NLDS ON TBS BETWEEN THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS AND EITHER THE LOS ANGELES DODGER OR THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS:

Game 1 | Umpire | Previous Postseason Assignments HP Carlos Torres 2 WC 1B Angel Hernandez 11 DS, 8 LCS, 2 WS 2B Ted Barrett (CC) 5 WC, 11 DS, 9 LCS, 4 WS 3B Pat Hoberg 2 WC, 1 DS, 1 LCS LF Doug Eddings 2 WC, 5 DS, 1 LCS, 1 WS RF Gabe Morales 2 WC

NLDS ON TBS BETWEEN THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS AND THE ATLANTA BRAVES: Game 1 | Umpire | Previous Postseason Assignments HP Mike Estabrook 1 WC, 1 DS 1B Mike Muchlinski 1 WC, 2 DS, 1 LCS 2B Alfonso Marquez (CC) 2 WC, 10 DS, 5 LCS, 3 WS 3B Tony Randazzo 7 DS, 2 LCS, 1 WS LF Will Little 3 WC, 2 DS, 1 LCS RF Quinn Wolcott 2 WC, 2 DS

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Division Series Replay Officials: CB Bucknor, Fieldin Culbreth, Chris Guccione and Adrian Johnson.

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Lollo is no longer a Triple A Umpire

Number Changes: Wegner- 47 to 14 Miller- 14 back to 26 Knight- 91 to 30 Drake- 30 to ?????

The following AAA guys are up for the opening series: Clint Fagan Chris Conroy John Tumpane Corey Blaser

I thought Tripp Gibson had a #?

Congrats Tumpane

FYI, the 2017 AAA unknown slots have surprisingly been assigned as follows: Davis: Hoberg DeMuth: Torres Cederstrom: Morales Miller: Hamari, by default

Any list for the crews this year

Gil and Tmac, under the 2020 call up umps you didn't list Brennan Miller, Alex Tosi and John Bacon

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MLB reveals umpire assignments for wild-card, divisional rounds

Here are the umpiring crews for the wild-card and divisional round playoff games..

Major League Baseball announced umpiring assignments for the wild-card and divisional playoff rounds Monday. Here they are:

Reds - Pirates wild-card game: Joe West (home plate), Dale Scott, Dan Iassogna, Rob Drake, Tim Timmons and Lance Barksdale.

Rays Texas Rangers - Indians wild-card game: Gerry Davis (home plate), Ted Barrett, Mike Everitt, Greg Gibson, Phil Cuzzi and Brian Knight.

Reds/Pirates- Cardinals NLDS: Jerry Layne (crew chief), Wally Bell, Sam Holbrook, Jim Joyce, Paul Nauert and Tony Randazzo.

Dodgers - Braves NLDS: John Hirschbeck (crew chief), Laz Diaz, Marvin Hudson, Bill Miller, Tim Welke and Hunter Wendelstedt.

Rays/Indians- Red Sox ALDS: Dana DeMuth (crew chief), Eric Cooper, Paul Emmel, Chris Guccione, Larry Vanover and Mike Winters.

Tigers - Athletics ALDS: Gary Darling (crew chief), CB Bucknor, Mike DiMuro, Tom Hallion, Jim Reynolds and Mark Wegner.

I'm not going to nitpick these selections, but I can't believe Bucknor got an assignment. I feel like you could poll players, managers, coaches, front office personnel, media, fans, etc. and the answer would always be the same: Bucknor is generally regarded as the worst umpire in Major League Baseball. It's hard to trust the evaluation process if he's getting a postseason series.

On the bright side, he's doing the Tigers series. An epic Jim Leyland meltdown could be on the menu.

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2021 MLB Umpire Power Rankings: First Third of the Season

Welcome to the first installment of the 2021 MLB Umpire Power Rankings, covering the first third of the season’s games. You may have clicked on these rankings wondering, “Why does anyone care about who the best and worst umpires in the game are? It’s the players on the field that win or lose the game.” Well, Umpires dictate the strike zone, sometimes inconsistently, so due to human error, certain teams gain a quantifiable advantage over the course of the game. Thanks to data compiled by Ethan Singer, owner and operator of @UmpScorecards , fans can see how each home plate umpire performed over the course of every individual MLB game. The home plate umpire’s number one job is to accurately call balls and strikes, however, calls can be missed, so fans would hope that the umpire is at least consistent in their calls so that no team gets a sizeable advantage throughout the game.

To determine the best and worst umpires, I looked at umpires that have called at least 1000 pitches this season through May 31, 2021, and looked at who had the best and worst accuracy as well as which umpires favored a team the least and most. Umpires still play a big role in today’s game, so it’s important that we hold the bad ones accountable for their mistakes and acknowledge the best umpires in the majors for their excellent work.

Here are the top five and bottom five of the 80 qualifying umpires for the first third of the season.

• Accuracy: 95.4%
• Avg. Favor: 0.27 runs

Easily the best qualifying umpire so far this season, the 39-year-old Gibson not only boasts the highest accuracy in the majors among qualifying umpires, his average favor is third-lowest with 0.27 runs. His best outing came on May 25, 2021, with the Giants taking on the Diamondbacks in Arizona. For the game, Tripp had a 97.2 percent accuracy and his favor was a perfect 0.00, meaning that his calls didn’t benefit either team in the slightest. Give this man a raise and some more playoff assignments.

• Accuracy: 95.1%
• Avg. Favor: 0.40 runs

An 11-year veteran behind the plate, Porter, 43, is having a very good start to the 2021 season. Boasting two games with a 96.5 percent accuracy rate just shows how good his eye is behind the plate. However, his best game came on April 28, 2021, when the Nationals took on the Blue Jays. For the game, Porter had a 94.0 percent accuracy and an elite 0.05-run favor against the home team. Although he isn’t quite on Gibson’s level so far this season, he tops the next tier of great umpires.

• Accuracy: 95.0%
• Avg. Favor: 0.44 runs

The last of three qualifying umpires to have an accuracy of 95 percent or higher, James Hoye is the most senior of the five umpires in the top five, with 18 years of MLB umpiring experience. At 50-years-old, Hoye has a high average accuracy of 95.0 percent this season. His best game so far came on May 25, 2021, when the Mets took on the Cardinals in St. Louis. There, Hoye had a whopping 97.4 percent accuracy and a great 0.14-run favor for the home team. Already having received nine playoff assignments, if he keeps this up, he should be returning there in 2021.

• Accuracy: 94.7%

Already considered one of the best young umpires in the game, the 36-year-old Blakney starts his seventh season on a high note, tied for fifth in accuracy after 12 games umpired so far. His best game came on May 4, 2021, when the Tigers faced the Red Sox in Boston. He had a 95.0 percent accuracy and an elite 0.03-run favor against the home team. A great young umpire, he should get a playoff assignment if he keeps up his good reputation and performance so far this season.

• Accuracy: 94.6%
• Avg. Favor: 0.31 runs

The youngest umpire in the top five, and with the least amount of experience, Lentz, 31, is entering his fifth season as a major league umpire. He is tied for eighth in both average favor and accuracy in the majors. His best game came on April 17, 2021, for the Pirates-Padres game in San Diego. There, he had a good 0.20-run favor against the home team but a great 97.8 percent accuracy. Although he has drawn the ire of some managers in the past , he is having a great start to his 2021 campaign.

• Accuracy: 91.6%
• Avg. Favor: 0.55 runs

Leading off for the underperforming group, Larry Vanover, 65, is a long-time veteran of the sport, umpiring in the majors every year since 1991, except for 2000 and 2001. Over his long career, he has received eight postseason assignments, including the World Series in 2016. Unfortunately, his accuracy being at 91.6 percent this season is not good enough. In his worst games this season, he had an 87.4 percent accuracy in his April 16, 2021, game featuring the Diamondbacks vs. the Nationals, and on May 15, 2021, umpiring the Royals-White Sox game, he ended up favoring the away team with a favor of 1.27 runs.

• Accuracy: 91.4%

The second-most experienced person on this list, O’Nora, 58, has almost 30 years under his belt. Unfortunately, all that that experience hasn’t helped him this season, as he has the second-lowest accuracy among qualifying umpires. In 10 games, he’s had seven with an accuracy percentage of less than 92.0. His worst outing was his latest on May 29, 2021, when he umpired a game between the Pirates and the Rockies in Colorado. There, he had a bad accuracy of 87.2 percent and his favor in the game was 1.86 runs based on his calls. Just a really rough outing for him.

• Accuracy: 91.5%
• Avg. Favor: 0.37 runs

Kulpa, 52, has umpired major league games since 1998 and has worked 14 postseason assignments in his career. Unfortunately, that hasn’t helped him this year either since in four of his 12 games this year, he has a pitch called accuracy of less than 90.0 percent. His worst outing was on May 1, 2021, featuring the Red Sox visiting the Rangers, where he had an atrocious accuracy of 84.8 percent, getting a total of 23 pitches called wrong throughout the game.

• Accuracy: 91.8%
• Avg. Favor: 0.70 runs

Gibson, 52, actually has the highest accuracy of the bottom-five qualifying umpires (not a great accomplishment), but the reason he is the 79th qualifying umpire is because of his high average favor. He has the third-highest average favor of all qualifying umpires, behind Chad Fairchild (0.75 runs), and Jim Reynolds (0.73 runs). Coupling his favor with his poor accuracy and his 24 years of experience, he should be held to a higher standard based on how he’s performing. His worst outing so far came on May 16, 2021, in a game featuring the Cardinals and the Padres, in which he had a low accuracy of 88.2 percent and a favor for the hometown Padres of 1.23 runs for the game.

• Accuracy: 91.3%
• Avg. Favor: 0.42 runs

Not much to like about Rob Drake’s umpiring so far this season. Drake, 52, has umpired in the major leagues since 1999, and is flat-out not performing up to the level of his peers. In nine games this season, Drake hasn’t had an accuracy percentage at or above 93.5 percent. He consistently sits in the low nineties, with five of his nine performances grading out below 91 percent. He has had some games with good favor, including three games with a favor of less than 0.10 runs, but he’s also had some bad favor games, with two games above 1.00 runs; his 1.44-run away team favor on April 29, 2021, in a game where the Yankees traveled to face the Orioles in Baltimore. For an umpire that has had eight postseason assignments, he needs to be much better than how he has been performing.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 8: Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez signals during the game between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 8, 2011 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers won 1-0. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

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Back in July Angel Hernandez filed a discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball claiming that he was passed up for promotion and postseason assignments. That’s still pending, but in the meantime he’ll be working the postseason this year. At least part of it, as he’s been assigned to handle the Red Sox-Astros Division Series. That, and all of the other umpire assignments for the Wild Card and first round of the playoffs were announced yesterday.

Among some of our other favorite umps, Laz Diaz gets the Cubs-Nats series. Joe West gets nothing, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be back for the League Championship Series or World Series. We are never too far from getting some Joe West in our lives.

Here are the assignments. Lodge your complaints in the comments, where Major League Baseball will get right on them, I am certain.

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