Chris Guccione

Christopher Gene Guccione
(Gooch)

• Height 5' 9", Weight 220 lb.
• High School Salida High School

• Born June 24, 1974 in Salida, CO USA

Biographical Information

Chris Guccione is an umpire. He started in Organized Baseball in 1995 and worked in the Pioneer League, Midwest League, California League and Texas League. He made it to the Pacific Coast League in 2000 and also became a major league umpire that year. However, he had to work 1,255 games as a fill-in umpire, before finally being added permanently to the major league staff in 2009. He worked the 2016 World Series.

He has worked the 2006 World Baseball Classic, the 2011 All-Star Game, the 2013 World Baseball Classic and 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Further Reading

• Tom Larwin et. al.: "Observations of Umpires at Work", in The Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 40, Number 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 77-87.

Related Sites

• Chris Guccione at the SABR Bio Project
• Chris Guccione on Retrosheet.org