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RoboUmp
99% Invisible
Umpires Get It Right 99% of the Time
"I could have gone pro if it weren't for my poor eyesight, my aversion to getting yelled at and the time I was hitting the throat by baseball," he says. "It's kind of incredible that on average, umpires get it right about 94 to 97% of the time on strike calls." The worst umpire today would have been upper tier in 1997, Hensley says.
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