10 Worst Umpires in Major League Baseball
4. Doug Eddings
Eddings is another mainstay of these lists and there's a very good reason: he sucks. He is legitimately one of the worst umpires in baseball history. What's worse, he'll be the first to yell at any player or manager who questions any of his calls. We should all be questioning why he is still employed by Major League Baseball.
Umpire Doug Eddings had a very bad game last night, missing calls by 6.47 in, 5.03 in, and 4.67 in.
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) October 4, 2022
This was only 1 of 4 games this season with multiple 5+ inch misses and Eddings managed to do it in a rain shortened 8 inning game.#Orioles #BlueJays pic.twitter.com/l7NZRHTU1n
Eddings was behind the plate for 30 excruciating games in 2023. He had the fourth-worst accuracy (92.8), third-worst CCAx (-38.7), his xAcc was 93.7 and his AAx of -0.87 was fourth-worst in the league. Eddings had 18 games in which me missed 10 calls or more. In 2022 he missed 29 calls in a single game, according to Umpire Auditor. No, really.
*NEW SEASON HIGH*
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) June 22, 2022
Umpire Doug Eddings missed a season high 29 calls in the #BlueJays #WhiteSox game for a correct call rate of 86.2%. This included 6 blown strikeouts. pic.twitter.com/UljFJn2I1A
I don't know how anyone can justify Eddings sticking around in the big leagues behind the plate.