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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05

MIN @ NYY

Home plate: Sean Barber

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, NYY
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brooks Lee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Martin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Josh Bell — 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: Anthony Volpe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Anthony Volpe vs Joe Ryan
  2. 2-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Brooks Lee vs Ryan Weathers
  3. 3-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Luke Keaschall vs Jake Bird

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Brooks Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Josh Bell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Anthony Volpe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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