{"id":521472,"date":"2026-01-15T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/521472\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:21:24","slug":"corpus-christi-baseball-umpires-association-preps-for-2026-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/521472\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi Baseball Umpires Association preps for 2026 rule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 How many times do you go to a game and think you know the call better than the umpires. Well now is your chance to join the Corpus Christi Baseball Umpires Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi local chapter has served the baseball community since the early 1970&#8217;s. Carroll grad Larry Amaya says umpiring for him is a family tradition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s awesome. You know when I was 18-years-old my father got me into umpiring,&#8221; Amaya said. &#8220;He was the president of our chapter. My son is 20 years-old and he&#8217;s into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768472482_458_.jpeg\" alt=\"Larry Amaya, Corpus Christi umpire\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi currently has around 70 umpires signed up for the 2026 season. Their goal has always been to have 85 or more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s our dream,&#8221; Amaya said. &#8220;We ask Santa every year for new umpires, and we got a few this year. We&#8217;re very excited about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768472483_742_.jpeg\" alt=\"Corpus Christi Baseball Umpires Association\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>One of the new umpires is Robstown 2024 grad Jason Ramos Jr., a student at Del Mar College.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels different seeing the guys and thinking they used to umpire me when I was smaller,&#8221; Ramos said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty cool that I&#8217;m here now, I get to help them out and I get to umpire a few games myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768472483_598_.jpeg\" alt=\"Jason Ramos Jr.\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>Nick Espinosa will also be behind the plate for his first season. The Moody 2025 alum will be joining his father Steve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad he&#8217;s been umpiring for a couple of years,&#8221; Espinosa said. &#8220;I played the game, I know a lot of the guys and I just want to be back at home. Give back to my community and show and serve love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are a few new changes like the double first base rule that will be required in 2027. Corpus Christi is enforcing the rule now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I truly believe that we in South Texas umpire the best baseball in the State,&#8221; Amaya said. &#8220;It&#8217;s awesome when we see young people come in, continue the rich tradition and want to learn and stay a part of baseball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768472484_67_.jpeg\" alt=\"Corpus Christi Baseball Umpires Association\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>Texas high school baseball practice starts Friday, Jan. 16, so if you&#8217;d like to be part of the Corpus Christi Baseball Umpires Association and learn the rules their next meeting is Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Incarnate Word Academy High School cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to contact the CCBUA and Larry Amaya at justcallit@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 How many times do you go to a game and think you know the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[35744,5,69209,69210,10539,8965],"class_list":["post-521472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-35744","tag-baseball","tag-larry-amaya","tag-nick-espinosa","tag-rules","tag-umpire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115898619744831710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}