Mark Wegner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Wegner
Occupation	Baseball Umpire
Date Of Birth	Mar 4, 1972(1972-03-04)
Age	52
Birthplace	Saint Paul
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Pisces

Mark Wegner Biography

Mark Wegner is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Umpire who was born on March 4, 1972 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Mark Patrick Wegner (born March 4 1972) is a Major League Baseball umpire. He was a member of the National League from 1998 to 1999, as well as in the major leagues from 2000 onwards. In 2018, he was elevated to Crew Chief. MLB season following Dale Scott retired after the 2017 MLB season.

Wegner umpired third base in the game in which Randy Johnson won his 300th career game on June 4, 2009.

Wegner worked his first career no-hitter on July 13, 2013, calling balls and strikes for Tim Lincecum’s 148-pitch performance against the San Diego Padres. Replays indicate Wegner called Lincecum to the tune of 97.9% accuracy, missing just two pitches.

On November 1, 2017, Wegner was behind home plate for Game 7 of the World Series, which was won by the Houston Astros by a score of 5-1 over the host Los Angeles Dodgers. Prior to the start of the 2018 season, Wegner was promoted to crew chief.

On June 2nd in 2007 Wegner was in a heated dispute during a row with Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella. After Wegner decided the call of Angel Pagan was out at third due to an attempted theft, Piniella, who later admitted that the call was right was furious, stormed out from the dugout and threw his hat off and began to kick dirt at Wegner. Piniella was kicked out and handed a suspension of four games and apologized later to Wegner.

Mark Wegner Net Worth

Mark Wegner is one of the richest Baseball Umpire from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Wegner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wegner has been an umpire for the nine Division Series (2003, 2004 2005, 2006 2009, 2012 2013 2017) as well as Five League Championship Series (2007, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018,) and the two World Baseball Classics (2009, 2013). He also officiated at 2008’s 2008 All-Star Game, the 2014 and 2018 National League Wild Card Games and 2013 World Series. 2013 World Series and recently the 2017 World Series. Wegner wears the uniform number 14, while he before that, he was wearing the number 47 for his uniform. In the 2018 regular season the umpire was rated the top performing home plate umpire, in terms of accuracy when calling balls and strikes. The errors were 7.28 percent. The figure was derived from the results of a study at Boston University where 372,442 pitches were examined and culled.

On June 28th in 2007, Wegner was at the plate at the time Toronto Blue Jay Frank Thomas hit his 500th career-high home run off Minnesota Twins pitcher Carlos Silva. Then, Thomas was ejected by Wegner for disputing strikes and balls. Toronto director John Gibbons was thrown out of the game too.

On May 30, 2012, Wegner was the target of Chicago White Sox announcer Ken Harrelson for ejecting pitcher Jose Quintana. Harrelson claimed Wegner “knew nothing about the game of baseball”. Those comments drew much ire from the MLB and Harrelson apologized for those comments.

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Facts & Trivia

Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Umpire. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mark Wegner celebrates birthday on March 4 of every year.