monday's umpire report

[Terryray]

link to Mr Feist. bookmark it. He's good for somethings, so no complaining!

http://www.nss.net/umpire.htm

Ump stat trends can change from year to year. I usually don't consider the ump until almost the all star break, and then only if the trend is at least 67% one way or another.

But some are steady year to year, like our friend John Hirshbeck for unders. Or Mike Fichter for ruining it if you take a corner specialist like Buehrle trying to deal with this turkey's small strike zone.

 

[Terryray]

that link I stole from nopulpjuice...


so the only confirmed ump to look at now ( the rest will be public just before the games, and I won't be here then) is Foster for the TX/Seattle game.

He is a strong over ump last four seasons. One season he didn't sport a big O/U trend, but his avg runs was still high.

and over was 7-2 last season between these teams at TX (13-4 last 3 seasons!)
over 2-1 in this series.

TX tends to go over at end of series when they try hard to avoid sweep.

But Baldwin over was 6-16 away last season, and he's been very sharp this season so far. But he's 4-4 with 5.49 era in 11 starts against TX. But most of that was with CWS.

Burba was miserable in his last start against Mariners, last season with Cleveland. More incentive to be sharp tonight. He is 5-1 lifetime against them, with 5.70 era.