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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-14

MIA @ ATL

Home plate: James Jean

“The black wasn't in play tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, ATL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Owen Caissie — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Xavier Edwards vs Reynaldo López
  2. 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Max Meyer
  3. 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Jakob Marsee vs Reynaldo López

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Owen Caissie — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.