Dillon Wilson
11 games graded behind the plate.
Dillon Wilson called 94.5% of taken pitches correctly in the 2026 regular season, on too few takes to place against umpires with a full season. League rate: 92.8%.
1,554 correct of 1,644 graded takes (94.5% ± 1.1, 95%). Best game 97.4% · worst 90.1%. Grade is accuracy on taken pitches vs the rulebook zone; ABS is the Automated Ball-Strike System challenge record (how often the robots overruled the call).
What we can't say about Dillon Wilson
This season is 1,644 graded takes, which puts Dillon Wilson's overall accuracy at 94.5% ± 1.1 (95% interval). That interval is a large share of the whole league's four-point spread, so this grade is a reading and not yet a ranking — we print it, and we do not place it against umpires with a full season behind the plate. Everything finer is further out of reach still:
- how the zone moves with two strikes — about 329 takes, so ±2.5 points. (the league-wide two-strike effect is about 1 point in 2026.)
- any single corner of the zone — about 137 takes, so ±3.8 points. (corner cells are where umpires actually differ.)
- whether one pitcher is called tighter than another — about 27 takes, so ±8.6 points. (a given pitcher is worked once or twice a season.)
And a note on the number itself: an accuracy figure is a rate plus a convention for what counts as a miss. Ours grades every taken pitch against the rulebook zone as the feed reports it. Others are more forgiving — UmpScorecards counts a call wrong only when the pitch was at least 90% likely to be a strike — so two sites can print the same percentage about the same umpire and not mean the same thing by it. How the grade is built.
The overturn rate is a different kind of number and does not belong beside the grade: it is accuracy on the 31 pitches players chose to challenge, which are the pitches they already believed were wrong. 31 is enough to print it with its own denominator, which is what we do — but it still ranks umpires by how often they are appealed, not by how often they are right.
The games
| Game | Grade | Favor | ABS | Blue Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAA @ SEA2026-09-27 | C+ | 0.2 LAA | 2/5 | The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch. |
| MIN @ SF2026-09-23 | B | 0.0 MIN | 2/3 | A steady night's work behind the plate. |
| NYY @ LAA2026-09-02 | A | 0.2 LAA | 0/1 | A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about. |
| ATH @ MIN2026-07-25 | B | 0.5 MIN | 0/2 | Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either. |
| CIN @ SEA2026-07-20 | A | 1.0 CIN | 1/4 | A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix. |
| ATH @ LAA2026-06-26 | A | 0.2 ATH | 2/3 | A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about. |
| NYM @ PHI2026-06-21 | A | 0.1 PHI | 1/3 | Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there. |
| LAD @ CWS2026-06-14 | A | 0.8 CWS | 2/4 | A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix. |
| HOU @ LAA2026-06-09 | A- | 0.3 HOU | 1/3 | Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks. |
| TEX @ HOU2026-05-16 | A+ | 0.3 HOU | 0/2 | A steady night's work behind the plate. |
| SEA @ HOU2026-05-11 | B+ | 0.1 HOU | 0/1 | You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call. |
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