Baseball's Run On Umpires.

As in, running away from an ABS future

Seven umpires in Major League Baseball are going to take buyouts and retire at the end of this season, and if that sounds like rather a lot to you, congratulations on being a close-attention-paying type of fan/person/baseball nerd/all-purpose nerd.

How you knew this, I’m not quite sure, but well done you. You are correct: MLB normally has a working cast of 76 full-time umps, so to lose upward of 10% of them in a single off-season is noteworthy, especially considering that normal turnover is in the 1 to 3 umpire range.

In other news, I have the All-Star Break numbers for the ABS system.

I believe that we will together find a common link here.