These Are All of the Umpiring Crews—and the Parks They Work—in MLB 12 The Show

As is well known, the officiating in MLB 12 The Show can be set to a variable quality of accuracy. You can either have it perfect, or home plate umpires can have personal strike zones and tendencies, blow close plays and refuse to ring up hitters on a checked swing.

Those who frequently play MLB The Show, which has included umpiring “personalities” as far back as 2007, can even develop expectations of what a particular umpire will and won’t call for a strike at the edges of the standard strike zone. It leads to some pretty humorous complaining, very much like what you hear from managers, pitchers and booth analysts in real life.

One thing you can’t do, however, is pick your umpire. If Porter Callahan gives the outside strike to right handers (I’m making that up, I have no idea if he does) you can’t select him to go behind home plate.

Or can you?

In putting together my version of Deadspin’s “Better Know an Umpire”, I discovered that all umpiring crews in MLB 12 The Show‘s Exhibition mode—the one-off “play now” mode—are fixed to each stadium. What’s more, the same group of four all work together, rotating their assignments at other stadiums. Kerwin Thompson, Rusty Valentine (which sounds like an Urban Dictionary entry), Tom Reyburn and C.B. Hernandez will not work with anyone else.

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In the career modes—franchise, season and Road to the Show—crews will officiate outside of their assigned parks but they still seem to all work in the same groupings of four.

So, here is the definitive guide to the better knowledge of an umpire in MLB 12 The Show—the officiating assignments for all 30 major league teams. Luckily, that blind dickbag Wally Hughes is behind the plate only in Baltimore.

Arizona

Home plate: Earl Hendricks

First base: Woody Keller

Second base: Wally Hughes

Third base: Clyde Washington

Atlanta

Home plate: Jeff Carlson

First base: James Gibson

Second base: Ricky Holliday

Third base: Marvin Knight

Baltimore

Home plate: Wally Hughes

First base: Clyde Washington

Second base: Earl Hendricks

Third base: Woody Keller

Boston

Home plate: Porter Callahan

First base: Dutch Nelson

Second base: Patrick Johnson

Third base: Earl Cooper

Chicago Cubs

Home plate: James Gibson

First base: Ricky Holliday

Second base: Marvin Knight

Third base: Jeff Carlson

Chicago White Sox

Home plate: Clyde Washington

First base: Earl Hendricks

Second base: Woody Keller

Third base: Wally Hughes

Cincinnati

Home plate: Clyde Washington

First base: Earl Hendricks

Second base: Woody Keller

Third base: Wally Hughes

Cleveland

Home plate: Dutch Nelson

First base: Patrick Johnson

Second base: Earl Cooper

Third base: Porter Callahan

Colorado

Home plate: Patrick Johnson

First base: Earl Cooper

Second base: Porter Callahan

Third base: Dutch Nelson

Detroit

Home plate: Joe MacDonald

First base: Mike Winters

Second base: Eric Summersgill

Third base: Freddie Ferguson

Houston

Home plate: Dutch Nelson

First base: Patrick Johnson

Second base: Earl Cooper

Third base: Porter Callahan

Kansas City

Home plate: C.B. Hernandez

First base: Tom Reyburn

Second base: Kerwin Thompson

Third base: Rusty Valentine

Los Angeles Angels

Home plate: Earl Hendricks

First base: Woody Keller

Second base: Wally Hughes

Third base: Clyde Washington

Los Angeles Dodgers

Home plate: Mike Winters

First base: Eric Summersgill

Second base: Freddie Ferguson

Third base: Joe MacDonald

Miami

Home plate: Woody Keller

First base: Wally Hughes

Second base: Clyde Washington

Third base: Earl Hendricks

Milwaukee

Home plate: Joe MacDonald

First base: Mike Winters

Second base: Eric Summersgill

Third base: Freddie Ferguson

Minnesota

Home plate: Marvin Knight

First base: Keff Carlson

Second base: James Gibson

Third base: Ricky Holliday

New York Mets

Home plate: Freddie Ferguson

First base: Joe MacDonald

Second base: Mike Winters

Third base: Eric Summersgill

New York Yankees

Home plate: Freddie Ferguson

First base: Joe MacDonald

Second base: Mike Winters

Third base: Eric Summersgill

Oakland

Home plate: Patrick Johnson

First base: Earl Cooper

Second base: Porter Callahan

Third base: Dutch Nelson

Philadelphia

Home plate: Kerwin Thompson

First base: Rusty Valentine

Second base: C.B. Hernandez

Third base: Tom Reyburn

Pittsburgh

Home plate: Rusty Valentine

First base: C.B. Hernandez

Second base: Tom Reyburn

Third base: Kerwin Thompson

San Diego

Home plate: Tom Reyburn

First base: Kerwin Thompson

Second base: Rusty Valentine

Third base: C.B. Hernandez

San Francisco

Home plate: Jeff Carlson

First base: James Gibson

Second base: Ricky Holliday

Third base: Marvin Knight

Seattle

Home plate: Eric Summersgill

First base: Freddie Ferguson

Second base: Joe MacDonald

Third base: Mike Winters

St. Louis

Home plate: Marvin Knight

First base: Jeff Carlson

Second base: James Gibson

Third base: Ricky Holliday

Tampa Bay

Home plate: Kerwin Thompson

First base: Rusty Valentine

Second base: C.B. Hernandez

Third base: Tom Reyburn

Texas

Home plate: Tom Reyburn

First base: Kerwin Thompson

Second base: Rusty Valentine

Third base: C.B. Hernandez

Toronto

Home plate: Ricky Holliday

First base: Marvin Knight

Second base: Jeff Carlson

Third base: James Gibson

Washington

Home plate: Porter Callahan

First base: Dutch Nelson

Second base: Patrick Johnson

Third base: Earl Cooper