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May Rules Review – Answers

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All,

The May Rules Review answers have been posted for your consideration.

A few points to note:

  • There were only two submissions during the original ten day submission period.
  • There were an additional eight submissions once the review was re-opened on May 16, for a total of ten submissions total. This is still less than 25% of the Association membership.
  • There were zero submissions that answered all five scenarios correctly

From the HBUA Policy and Procedure Manual:

In the event of a game that must be replayed due to an overturned protest, the Assigner shall schedule the original umpire crew for the game. If the protest was overturned due to an incorrect rule application, the umpires shall not be paid for the replayed game. In the event the original crew is unavailable, the original umpire(s) shall forfeit the game fee to the replacement umpire(s).

Each question answered incorrectly on the Rule Review represents an oppourtunity to lose a protest. Remember, good umpiring means having a complete knowledge of, and proficiency in, all Official Baseball Rules, interpretations, policies and regulations. Please take the time to read some portion of the rule book each day.

HBUA Rules Review Answers – May

May Rules Review – Re-Opened

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All,

The May Rules Review has been unlocked for completion. You will be given five days (May 20th) to submit your answers within the provided online form.

As part of the HBUA’s continuous efforts to encourage umpires to study the Official Baseball Rules and Umpire Manual year-round, we will be conducting Rules Reviews periodically throughout the this season and for future seasons.

We encourage each umpire to share their thoughts and ideas regarding rules enforcement as there may be more than one right answer in some cases.

Some Rules Review questions will consist of rules interpretations that have occurred during the current and past seasons. These questions can serve as a resource for daily pre-game rules discussion with your crew. We encourage crews to submit difficult and rare rule interpretations to Chris Marco (cmarco_5@hotmail.com) so we may include for upcoming Rule Reviews.

Remember good umpiring means having a complete knowledge of, and proficiency in, all Official Baseball Rules, interpretations, policies and regulations. Please take the time to read some portion of the rule book each day.

May Rules Review

Umpire Update

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Guys,

The season hasn’t got off to a very good start. The lack of permits and weather have certainly caused us to lose a lot of games already. So far we have lost close to 50!  The assigners job has now become a full time employment for me. All I seem to
be doing is rescheduling games.

I am still waiting for 4 team schedules to come in.  

Assignments: I have attempted to contact several of you with no response to your availability. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make my job any easier that is for sure.  Over the next week I will be assigning for the remainder of the month and into June. Once you have received your game assignments, please confirm them with me ASAP. Once I have the next day assigned and all umpires have confirmed it will be posted on the spreadsheet. Our Tuesday evenings are extremely busy, for some reason everyone wants to play this evening.

I have also sent out several reminders to those who have yet to do their Level 3, and for those that are eligible.  The due date is May 15, and they will no be reminded anymore.  

Schedules: As you can see the spreadsheet is changing daily with game changes.  With the amount of games that we have lost already there is limited diamond time to make these games up. These games added in light blue as you can see. With these add-ons I will be scrambling to find umpires so keep an eye on these and if you see something on there and you are available please let me know. League rules will also be updated on the website. Please refresh yourself with the new Baseball Ontario Rules.

Umpire Rule Quiz: Chris Marco sent out an email to most of you in regards to the 5 question rule quiz. The quiz was available on our website. We thought that this would be a great opportunity for you to review the rules and be ready for the upcoming season. Unfortunately, only 2 of you took the time to take the quiz. This was a huge disappointment as we expected more of a participation from the membership. Chris will try again shortly and we hope that more of you will have some fun and answer the quiz.

Recruitment/New Umpires: The HBUA worked with the HDBA and held 3 umpire training work shops and we had over 60 participate! Following through with our Level 1 and 2 clinics which we had really good attendance. Chris Walters put together a recruitment flyer and so far I have received feedback from over possibly 10 new umpires.  I will be assigning them with our senior mentors. A couple of you have expressed an interest, I would like to start out using these umpires on Rookie Ball and Mosquito bases. If you are interested in helping out please let me know. We already have several new umpires that have joined us and we would like to welcome you!!

Let’s all hope for no more rain, and maybe have some warmer temperatures along with it.

There will be more to come.

Regards,

Bill

May Rules Review

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As part of the HBUA’s continuous efforts to encourage umpires to study the Official Baseball Rules and Umpire Manual year-round, we will be conducting Rules Reviews periodically throughout the this season and for future seasons.

We encourage each umpire to share their thoughts and ideas regarding rules enforcement as there may be more than one right answer in some cases. You will be given 10 days (May 10th) to submit your answers within the provided online form.

Some Rules Review questions will consist of rules interpretations that have occurred during the current and past seasons. These questions can serve as a resource for daily pre-game rules discussion with your crew. We encourage crews to submit difficult and rare rule interpretations to Chris Marco (cmarco_5@hotmail.com) so we may include for upcoming Rule Reviews.

Remember good umpiring means having a complete knowledge of, and proficiency in, all Official Baseball Rules, interpretations, policies and regulations. Please take the time to read some portion of the rule book each day.

May Rules Review