Fantasy Baseball Cafe Forums

by **Darkie Satchels** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:08 am

You know, we never talk about one key factor in pitching and starting certain pitchers; the umpire. Given, if you are a good pitcher, this won’t matter. But I was watching Maddux last night and he was fanning the corners like a pro and wasn’t getting the calls. For example, he had a series of three pitches that were clearly strikes. He knew it, the announcers knew it, but the umpire didn’t budge and called the balls. Yet, when he threw low, the umpire was calling everything an inch off the ground a strike. Then I flipped to the Braves and Davies was pitching. Again, the umpire was calling some pretty bad balls that were clearly strikes. And I got to thinking…

…Is it possible for us to start a collaborative list of umpires behind the plate and rank their skills? There are certainly veterans out there who call games wisely and fair. So, that said, let’s get a list together of some of the top umpires who are beneficial/not to a pitcher. I know it sounds silly but it would be interesting to see everyone’s take – especially the wicked smart fantasy ball players on these boards who have been around for some time. Just a thought…

by **Darkie Satchels** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:39 am

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/offic ... roster.jsp

No. Umpire
65 Ted Barrett
35 Wally Bell
15 Joe Brinkman
54 CB Bucknor
48 Mark Carlson
38 Gary Cederstrom
56 Eric Cooper
13 Derryl Cousins
40 Terry Craft
2 Jerry Crawford
25 Fieldin Culbreth
99 Phil Cuzzi
44 Kerwin Danley
37 Gary Darling
12 Gerry Davis
32 Dana DeMuth
63 Laz Diaz
16 Mike DiMuro
1 Bruce Drekman
88 Doug Eddings
50 Paul Emmel
57 Mike Everitt
49 Andy Fletcher
60 Marty Foster
6 Bruce Froemming
53 Greg Gibson
9 Brian Gorman
55 Angel Hernandez
17 John Hirschbeck
29 Bill Hohn
34 Sam Holbrook
51 Marvin Hudson
58 Dan Iassogna
66 Jim Joyce
8 Jeff Kellogg
46 Ron Kulpa
24 Jerry Layne
72 Alfonso Marquez
30 Randy Marsh
36 Tim McClelland
41 Jerry Meals
14 Chuck Meriwether
26 Bill Miller
11 Ed Montague
96 Paul Nauert
45 Jeffrey Nelson
7 Brian O'Nora
39 Larry Poncino
59 Tony Randazzo
19 Ed Rapuano
23 Rick Reed
31 Mike Reilly
18 Charlie Reliford
77 Jim Reynolds
71 Brian Runge
43 Paul Schrieber
5 Dale Scott
95 Tim Timmons
4 Tim Tschida
27 Larry Vanover
47 Mark Wegner
52 Bill Welke
10 Tim Welke
21 Hunter Wendelstedt
22 Joe West
33 Mike Winters
78 Jim Wolf
28 Larry Young