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Who employs baseball referees: MLB or the teams whose stadiums they referee in?
I watch a lot of baseball, and it seems to me that umpires tend to make calls that favor the home team, regardless of what stadium they are calling a game in. An umpire is supposed to be impartial, and while I accept that they're human and make mistakes, I rarely see them make a call that would result in a home team fan's smashing their car window.
I'm trying to gauge exactly how impartial they really are, considering they are paid to call a fair game (although everyone makes mistakes). Logically, it would make sense if the umpires didn't care one whit who won or lost the game. So who pays their paycheck - MLB, Incorporated, or do they get paid by the teams they call games for?
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
MLB employs them, although they do have a union that negotiates for them.
If you think that it's rare for them to go against the home team, Armando Gallaraga's "perfect" game was ruined at Comerica (home for the tigers) and Brett Lawrie's recent blowup was in Toronto where the ump called two blatant balls as strikes.
- dawgdaysLv 79 years ago
The umpires are employed by MLB. Each crew works a series, then moves on to another city. Generally, a crew will not work the next series for either team.
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- Anonymous9 years ago
nobody in baseball employs "referees".
they employ UMPIRES.
