Stuart Jeffrey Scheurwater (born May 6, 1983) is a Canadian
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...
(MLB)
umpire
An umpire is an official in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection.
The term derives from the Old French , , and , : (as evidenced in cricke ...
. He made his MLB debut on April 25, 2014, and was hired to the full-time staff in December 2017.
Scheurwater began working
Minor League Baseball
Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), constituted of teams affiliated with MLB clubs. It was founded on September 5, 1901, in response to the growing dominance of the National Le ...
games in 2007. He was hired to fill the vacancy left by
Dale Scott's retirement. Scheurwater became the first permanent Major League umpire from Canada since
Jim McKean's retirement in 2001.
Prior to his professional career, Scheurwater was a member of
Baseball Canada’s National Umpiring program and worked the Baseball Canada Cup in 2005
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, R ...
and the 21U National Championship in 2006 in
Guelph, Ontario
Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as The Royal City, it is roughly east of Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Ontario Highway 6, ...
.
See also
*
List of Major League Baseball umpires (disambiguation)
Lists of Major League Baseball umpires include:
* List of Major League Baseball umpires (A–F)
* List of Major League Baseball umpires (G–M)
* List of Major League Baseball umpires (N–Z)
See also
* List of Major League Baseball umpiring ...
References
External links
RetrosheetMLB.com video from his MLB debut
1983 births
Living people
Baseball people from Saskatchewan
Canadian expatriate baseball people in the United States
Major League Baseball umpires
Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan
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