This will be held out on the Baseball field for the Apprentice and C-Tier umpires.  It is another field mechanics session so dress for the weather and bring your masks if you have them.

This session will take place out on the baseball field after the lunch break weather permitting.  Please dress warmly and prepare to exercise.  We will try to have our surplus equipment at the field for the Apprentices to pick over.  If you have masks and indicators, please bring them along as no better time than now to start to get comfortable with them in your hand.

This will be an introduction to field mechanics (how to physically move on the field during play)

This will be a morning classroom session for Apprentice and C-Tier umpires. We’ll likely be in the commons area again and not the boardroom.  So C-Tier be aware of this location change from prior years.  We’ll bring in some pizza for lunch. 

Subjects will include:

Obstruction/Interference

This will be another virtual Zoom meeting and it will include the new Apprentice members as well as the returning C-Tier umpires.  If you have not received the Zoom link prior to the meeting please contact the Director of Training found under “Contacts” on the website.

Subjects to be covered include:

Pre-Game/Post-Game
MLB Rules: Runner Rules
What is a Trouble Ball
WOA Umpire Mechanics

NOTE: We’d like apprentices there by 8:45am for paperwork and pictures, so training can start at 9am.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in person.  We’ll have a lot to cover on Saturday from: getting to meet each other in person, completing some of the registration steps (head shot for upload into arbiter), and of course continuing our training curriculum (maybe at the end we’ll even have you do a heel/toe in the slot (you’ll learn what that is). If lucky we’ll also have rule books and mechanic manuals to hand out.

Subjects covered will include:

Plate Basics (Jim Evan’s PPT)
Slot basics with mechanics
Strike Zone
Practical Strike Zone
Head Height, Tracking, Strike Mechanic, Ball Call Mechanic
Signal to partner
Putting the ball in play
Calling Time!
In-Field Fly Rule signals, vocals (when to call an IFF)
Timing Plays
Check swings

Parking Directions

This will be a Zoom meeting online for new (and prospective) members.  To receive an invitation to the meeting please apply via the form located at: https://nbua.net/about/join-nbua/

Subjects covered in this first session include:

Director of Training (Welcome to NBUA, …)
Apprentice Training 1st day
Basic List of NBUA Items Required
NBUA Uniform and Equipment
NBUA Umpire Terminology
Signaling the Basic 8
Apprentice / C Tier Expectations
WOA Umpire Mechanics (intro for apprentice)