when they drop a pop up or miss a ground ball. Please.

I'd be glad to.  How much does the official scorer's job pay?

I've noticed this lately. Whomever records these stats need to be a little more liberal with the use of errors.

 

It's another reason not to use fielding percentage as a way to rate a player's defense.

 

I've noticed this lately. Whomever records these stats need to be a little more liberal with the use of errors.

 

It's another reason not to use fielding percentage as a way to rate a player's defense.

It's been this way for a very long time.  20 or so years.

About 20 or so years ago, official scorers decided to hold MLB players to high school level fielding ability in regards to errors.

Today when Dozier dropped the pop up, and Esco dropped the line drive DP flip, I thought the scoring was very generous. We were much harder on scoring in youth ball than that.

Definitely agree... charge all players with errors not just the non prospects. Prospects make error after error and do not get tagged with the error. Completely ignored lets call it a learning curve. I have seen this over and over.

I'd also extend this to calling more errors in the outfield.  I don't think the standard should be "the ball has to touch his glove" to make an outfielder eligible for an error, IMO.

I think Jimmer is right. I'd say it's been about 20 years also. Which would put it at the dawn of the steroid era and inflated hitting stats, which makes sense in a way.