Umpire Grade · Blue Notes

Brennan Miller

17 games graded behind the plate.

Season Grade

93.6% avg

Avg Swing

runs / game

ABS Overturns

34/64 calls

Best game 97.9% · worst 87.8%. Grade is accuracy on taken pitches vs the rulebook zone; ABS is the Automated Ball-Strike System challenge record (how often the robots overruled him).

The games

Game	Grade	Favor	ABS	Blue Note
DET @ TEX2026-07-04	B+	0.1 DET	1/2	The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.
MIN @ HOU2026-06-29	A-	1.5 MIN	1/1	A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.
BOS @ COL2026-06-24	D	1.1 BOS	2/5	Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.
SD @ BAL2026-06-13	A-	0.5 BAL	2/3	Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.
LAD @ PIT2026-06-09	B-	0.1 LAD	6/8	The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.
CWS @ MIN2026-06-03	A	1.1 CWS	4/7	One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.
BOS @ CLE2026-05-30	B	0.8 BOS	1/4	You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.
LAA @ DET2026-05-27	A+	0.3 DET	4/5	Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.
TOR @ NYY2026-05-21	C+	0.4 NYY	1/3	The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.
BAL @ WSH2026-05-17	B	0.6 WSH	3/5	Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.
PIT @ AZ2026-05-07	A-	0.1 AZ	1/4	The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.
TEX @ DET2026-05-03	A	0.6 TEX	0/2	Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.
BOS @ TOR2026-04-28	A-	0.2 TOR	0/0	A steady night's work behind the plate.
SF @ WSH2026-04-18	B+	0.4 SF	0/2	Borderline went to the battery all night.
AZ @ BAL2026-04-13	B+	0.1 AZ	4/6	Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.
MIL @ BOS2026-04-08	B-	0.7 BOS	2/3	A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.
LAA @ HOU2026-03-29	A	1.3 HOU	2/4	Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.