As Summer Camp continues with nine days left until the first games of the MLB season teams are adding umpires to call their intra-squad games and give them a bit more realistic feel. Players probably welcome this compared to catchers calling the zone. After all, Bruce Levine was pretty clear on Marquee Sports Network’s podcast today that Willson Contreras had a pretty generous zone the hitters weren’t particularly fond of.
But as I discussed in yesterday’s diary entry, every time teams introduce a new person or team to their bubble they are introducing a new risk.