{"id":488506,"date":"2026-02-20T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488506\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:39:08","slug":"jen-pawol-to-work-spring-training-games-doesnt-get-permanent-ump-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488506\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Pawol to work spring training games, doesn\u2019t get permanent ump opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK &#8212; Jen Pawol will umpire during spring training for the third straight year, but the major leagues\u2019 first woman umpire did not get one of the permanent staff openings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tom Hanahan and Brian Walsh were promoted Friday to replace Mark Carlson and Phil Cuzzi, who are retiring. Carlson will become an umpire supervisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jordan Baker, who worked the plate in Game 7 of last year\u2019s World Series, will replace Carlson as a crew chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pawol, 49, became the first woman major league umpire Aug. 9 and worked a total of five big league games last year. In 2024, she became the first woman to umpire big league spring training games since Ria Cortesio in 2007. Pawol has been a minor league ump since 2016 and has worked at Triple-A since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walsh, 41, has worked 339 major league games as a call-up umpire. Hanahan, 35, has worked 329. Both made their major league debuts in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carlson, 56, made his major league debut in 1999 and has been a crew chief since 2021. He worked the World Series in 2015, 2020 and 2024, and he was behind the plate for a no-hitter by the Los Angeles Angels\u2019 Jered Weaver on May 2, 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cuzzi, 70, worked his first major league game in 1991 and worked the World Series in 2017. He was the plate umpire for no-hitters by St. Louis\u2019 Bud Smith on Sept. 3, 2001, and by Philadelphia\u2019s Cole Hamels on July 25, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Jen Pawol will umpire during spring training for the third straight year, but the major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-488506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}