Just because you are selected as one of the top students in one of the 2 proffessional umpire schools doesnt guarentee you will ever see the majors, right?
2007-06-13 17:46:22 · 2 answers · asked by yanks4422 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Very slim. There are about 30 new openings each year in the minors but only very few in the majors over the last 5 seasons.
I entered the minors in 1997 with a class of 54 umpires. (The reason for such a high number that year was the increase in the number of minor league teams for the Devil Rays and Diamondbacks.) I retired in 1999 to pursue other interest and continued to umpire HS and Legion ball. AS of my last examination of the rosters only 8 guys are still in AAA but 4 (Dusty Dellinger, Chad Fairchild, Travis Reininger and Casey Moser) have worked major league games.
The road is long the pay is terrible but the opportunity is there if you want it bad enough.
2007-06-13 22:13:46 · answer #1 · answered by david w 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. MLB umpires are basically there until they retire - there's no real system to demote bad ones, so the only time a new one gets a shot is when a current one retires. Turnover is very low - maybe 3-5 new umpires per year enter the majors.
2007-06-13 20:04:55 · answer #2 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋