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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-24

TEX @ MIA

Home plate: James Jean

“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, MIA
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how James Jean called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 112 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: Leo Jiménez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brian Navarreto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Alejandro Osuna vs Michael Petersen
  2. 2+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Griffin Conine vs Jacob deGrom
  3. 3-0.10▼6 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Heriberto Hernández vs Jacob deGrom

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Leo Jiménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Brian Navarreto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.