Max Scherzer wants to rank umpires.
Max Scherzer made a rehab start for the Round Rock Express on Wednesday night. Scherzer, who turns 40 this summer, threw two and one-third innings in his first appearance on the mound since offseason back surgery. While pitching against the Salt Lake Bees he got his first real taste of the automated strike zone used in Triple A.
“That way that the umpires are going up against themselves. There’s still a human element of how you rank umpires. It’s amongst themselves. Policing the bottom is the way to go. “When I’m out there pitching, if you told me I have the 10th best umpire or the 75th best umpire, you don’t really notice much between them because they’re really good at their jobs. The umpires are actually really good. It’s really the bottom umpires we all have a problem with. If there was a mechanism to make the umpires on the bottom better, I think that would be a better to address this.”
That's actually a pretty good idea. They could call it the Scherzer Suggested System or SSS, which might make some people think of a small sample size, but it would actually use a large amount of accurate data to determine who gets to work the biggest games and who gets demoted.
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