Umpire Grade · Blue Notes

Jordan Baker

18 games graded behind the plate.

Season Grade

93.1% avg

Avg Swing

runs / game

ABS Overturns

35/71 calls

Best game 97.5% · worst 87.7%. 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
MIA @ ATH2026-07-04	B+	0.2 ATH	2/4	Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.
TB @ KC2026-06-30	B+	0.7 TB	6/8	The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.
CHC @ NYM2026-06-25	A	0.2 NYM	2/6	No notes. Well, one: nicely done.
CWS @ DET2026-06-21	D	0.1 DET	1/4	The zone had wings tonight.
SF @ ATL2026-06-16	B+	1.3 SF	2/3	The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.
LAD @ AZ2026-06-04	A+	0.1 LAD	4/4	The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.
MIN @ PIT2026-05-31	A-	0.4 MIN	0/2	Called a fair game and let the players decide it.
ATL @ BOS2026-05-27	B-	0.3 ATL	0/2	Not his sharpest evening behind the plate.
CLE @ PHI2026-05-23	A	1.4 PHI	4/6	The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.
BAL @ TB2026-05-18	B-	0.2 TB	1/4	The zone had wings tonight.
DET @ NYM2026-05-14	D	0.9 NYM	1/3	Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.
MIL @ WSH2026-05-02	C	0.9 WSH	2/4	Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.
HOU @ BAL2026-04-28	C+	0.2 BAL	2/4	Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.
LAD @ SF2026-04-22	B+	0.2 SF	4/6	The black wasn't in play tonight.
TEX @ SEA2026-04-17	A-	1.0 SEA	2/3	A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.
TOR @ CWS2026-04-05	B+	0.8 TOR	0/2	The zone kept its promises.
PIT @ CIN2026-03-31	B-	0.4 PIT	0/3	Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.
COL @ MIA2026-03-27	A+	0.3 MIA	2/3	A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.