Fever BaseballFuture Value Radar (FVR) · On the record
RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
Support the paperGet the Digest
Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

SEA @ MIA

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

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

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, SEA
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — 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+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Heriberto Hernández vs Michael Rucker
  2. 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Randy Arozarena vs Janson Junk
  3. 3+0.10▲7 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Victor Robles vs Lake Bachar

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. 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — 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.