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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-29

BOS @ TOR

Home plate: James Jean

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TOR
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲2 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Andruw Monasterio vs Eric Lauer
  2. 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Brayan Bello
  3. 3-0.10▲2 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Connor Wong vs Eric Lauer

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.