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Paul Emmel

Paul Emmel has 38 home-plate games in our MLB database. His games average 8.87 combined runs against a league average of 8.89 — the tables below break that down by season and show his most recent games. Umpire tendencies are one small input to our MLB totals model, never a betting rule on their own.

Career plate games38

Avg total runs8.87-0.02 vs 8.89 league avg

Over 8.5 rate47.4%league avg: 48.8%

Home team win %57.9%

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Season by season

Season	Games	Avg total runs	Over 8.5 %	Home win %
2023	10	9.80	70.0%	70.0%
2022	28	8.54	39.3%	53.6%

Last 10 games behind the plate

Date	Matchup	Score	Total
May 20, 2023	Los Angeles Dodgers @ St. Louis Cardinals	5–6	11
May 16, 2023	Pittsburgh Pirates @ Detroit Tigers	0–4	4
May 12, 2023	New York Mets @ Washington Nationals	3–2	5
May 06, 2023	Athletics @ Kansas City Royals	12–8	20
Apr 30, 2023	Arizona Diamondbacks @ Colorado Rockies	4–12	16
Apr 27, 2023	St. Louis Cardinals @ San Francisco Giants	3–7	10
Apr 15, 2023	Arizona Diamondbacks @ Miami Marlins	2–3	5

Method: every number on this page is computed from the finished MLB games in our own model database (2022 onwards) where Paul Emmel was the recorded home-plate umpire. "Over 8.5 %" is the share of his games with 9+ combined runs; "Home win %" is how often the home team won with him behind the plate. Only umpires with at least 30 plate games get a page — smaller samples are noise. One honest caveat applies to everything here: even several seasons of plate games is a modest sample, and most deviation from the league average is variance, not a hidden edge.