List of Umpires

There are 17 crews of 4 umpires each, plus four auxiliary umpires who will fill in if a regular umpire must take time off for medical reasons, bereavement, calling in "sick" when they really just want the day off, etc.

The crews are numbered 1 through 18, with 13 being omitted because of bad luck associated with that number. During each series, fifteen crews are "employed" while the two remaining crews are "off." These off-series brotate throughout the season, so each crew has about the same amount of time off. Each umpiring crew consists of a crew chief and three non-chiefs.

During the post-season, umpiring crews consist of six umpires, rather than the traditional four. Umpires are positioned on the left and right field foul lines specifically to decide hwether a ball is foul or fair, and occasionally to overstep their boundaries and rule on "infield fly" calls. The four base-umpires are from a single crew, while the two outfield umpires are from another crew. The umpiring crew is the same for an entire post-season series. No umpiring crew can officiate more than one postseason series (with the new Wild Card playoff being an exception). It is a great honor to officiate a postseason series, as the umpiring crews are voted in by the players, fans, sportswriters, managers, and the American Idol judges.

After each season, each umpire is scored on the accuracy of his calls. The four umpires with the lowest scores will become the four auxiliary umpires for the next season. Being demoted to an auxiliary umpire is extremely embarrassing. Furthermore, auxiliary umpires are not paid, so they will have to get a "real job" in order to make ends meet. In the event of a tie, the umpires must play a game of Major League Water Baseball featuring Ken Griffin Jr. on Nintendo. The loser of that game will become an auxiliary umpire for the next year.

This page will only list the crew chiefs, because I do not feel like naming 72 klumpires.