Umpire Grade · Blue Notes

Willie Traynor

19 games graded behind the plate.

Season Grade

93.9% avg

Avg Swing

runs / game

ABS Overturns

40/66 calls

Best game 98.3% · worst 88.1%. 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
COL @ SF2026-07-12	A+	0.1 COL	4/5	Called a fair game and let the players decide it.
AZ @ SD2026-07-08	B	0.0 AZ	2/5	An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.
DET @ TEX2026-07-02	A	0.5 DET	2/2	The zone kept its promises.
ATL @ SF2026-06-28	A+	0.3 SF	1/2	A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.
MIN @ AZ2026-06-21	A	0.2 AZ	0/1	The catcher barely had to sell a thing.
COL @ CHC2026-06-16	A	0.4 CHC	0/2	A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.
PHI @ TOR2026-06-10	B+	0.6 TOR	2/2	Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.
SF @ CHC2026-06-06	B+	0.3 CHC	4/6	The zone kept its promises.
KC @ CIN2026-06-01	B-	0.6 KC	1/4	You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.
ATL @ BOS2026-05-28	A-	0.9 ATL	1/3	A steady night's work behind the plate.
PIT @ TOR2026-05-24	B+	0.8 TOR	2/3	The zone kept its promises.
SEA @ HOU2026-05-14	B+	0.8 HOU	7/10	The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.
BAL @ MIA2026-05-07	B	0.2 BAL	4/5	The black wasn't in play tonight.
CIN @ PIT2026-05-02	D	1.3 PIT	3/3	The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.
CHC @ LAD2026-04-24	A-	0.0 LAD	2/2	The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.
STL @ HOU2026-04-18	B+	0.7 HOU	1/2	Called a fair game and let the players decide it.
BOS @ MIN2026-04-13	A	0.6 BOS	1/3	An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.
BAL @ CWS2026-04-08	A-	0.0 CWS	2/4	A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.
LAD @ WSH2026-04-05	B-	0.3 WSH	1/2	Borderline went to the battery all night.