Umpire Grade · Blue Notes

Will Little

19 games graded behind the plate.

Season Grade

94.9% avg

Avg Swing

runs / game

ABS Overturns

33/77 calls

Best game 99.3% · worst 91.6%. 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 @ LAA2026-07-17	A-	0.9 DET	1/3	An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.
AZ @ SD2026-07-09	A+	0.1 SD	0/2	No notes. Well, one: nicely done.
HOU @ DET2026-06-27	A	0.2 HOU	0/3	The catcher barely had to sell a thing.
LAD @ MIN2026-06-23	A-	1.1 MIN	1/5	A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.
WSH @ TB2026-06-19	B	0.7 WSH	1/2	The zone kept its promises.
MIN @ DET2026-06-10	A	0.2 DET	1/4	The zone kept its promises.
MIA @ NYM2026-05-29	A-	0.4 NYM	5/5	Hawkeye clocked in early and stayed late.
MIN @ BOS2026-05-24	A+	0.4 MIN	0/2	Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.
CIN @ PHI2026-05-19	A	0.6 PHI	5/6	This one went to video review more than most.
KC @ STL2026-05-15	B+	0.1 STL	4/6	The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.
NYM @ AZ2026-05-10	A+	0.1 NYM	2/5	Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.
ATL @ SEA2026-05-05	A	0.3 ATL	1/3	Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.
DET @ ATL2026-04-29	B	0.7 ATL	2/4	The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.
WSH @ CWS2026-04-24	B-	0.3 CWS	4/7	Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.
DET @ BOS2026-04-20	B	0.7 BOS	0/2	Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.
LAA @ NYY2026-04-16	A	0.0 LAA	5/8	A few too many trips to the challenge cart.
MIL @ KC2026-04-05	A-	0.1 MIL	0/4	Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.
SF @ SD2026-03-31	A	0.0 SF	1/2	Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.
CLE @ SEA2026-03-27	B+	0.5 CLE	0/4	Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.