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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-01

MIN @ HOU

Home plate: Chris Conroy

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, MIN
4
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 200 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 187 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: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ryan Kreidler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Isaac Paredes vs Taj Bradley
  2. 2+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Josh Bell vs Tatsuya Imai
  3. 3-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Yordan Alvarez vs Taj Bradley

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Ryan Kreidler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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