I think there’s more scrutiny around ball-and-strike calls today than ever before. If not, then there’s certainly more substantiated scrutiny than ever before, what with improvements in technology and camera work. Oftentimes, this leads people to blast home-plate umpires as incompetent, but Ben Lindbergh takes the opposite approach and identifies those who are the best. Spoiler: John Olerud isn’t one of them. But John Olerud isn’t even an umpire so why would he be?
The Best Of The Flawed
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