Will Little

{{short description|American baseball umpire (born 1984)}}

{{distinguish|Will Little III}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| number = 93

| name = Will Little

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|3|2|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Fall Branch, Tennessee, U.S.

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| image = Hanley Ramirez, Will Little (17071023637).jpg

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| caption = Little with Hanley Ramírez in 2015

| debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = June 24

| debutyear = 2013

| umpirecrew = I

| crewchief = #23 Lance Barksdale

| crew2 = #93 Will Little

| crew3 = #67 Ryan Additon

| crew4 = #20 Ryan Wills

| highlights = Special Assignments

• All-Star Games (2022)
• Wild Card Games (2016, 2018, 2020, 2024)
• Division Series (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
• League Championship Series (2020)
• World Baseball Classic (2017, 2023)

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William Max Little III (born March 2, 1984) is an American Major League Baseball umpire. He was promoted to a full-time position in February 2015.{{cite news|title=Umpire Tim McClelland retires, MLB hires 3 umps full time|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=12354540|access-date=February 20, 2015|agency=Associated Press|work=ESPN.com|date=February 20, 2015}} He attended Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee, then studied biology at Milligan College, where he continued playing baseball.{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Trey|title=Little born to be major-league umpire|url=http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/article/124796/little-born-to-be-major-league-umpire|access-date=July 12, 2015|work=Johnson City Press|date=February 28, 2015}}

Little worked his first postseason assignment in 2016, working in the 2016 American League Wild Card Game.

Little was the first base umpire when Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels hit his 600th career home run against the Minnesota Twins on June 3, 2017.{{cite web| url = https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-vs-angels/2017/06/03/490935#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=490935| title = Twins 2, Angels 7 (Final Score) on MLB Gameday {{!}} MLB.com| website = MLB.com}}

For the 2018 regular season he was found to be a Top 10 performing home plate umpire in terms of accuracy in calling balls and strikes. His error rate was 7.66 percent. This was based on a study conducted at Boston University where 372,442 pitches were culled and analyzed.{{cite web|title=MLB Umpires Missed 34,294 Ball-Strike Calls in 2018. Bring on Robo-umps?

|url=http://www.bu.edu/today/2019/mlb-umpires-strike-zone-accuracy/|publisher=BU Today|access-date=June 29, 2019}}

He wears #93.{{cite web| url = https://www.mlb.com/official-information/umpires/bios| title = MLB Umpire Bios {{!}} MLB.com| website = MLB.com}}