I was on the fence about this until last night. Those calls were horrendous.
Umpires just fell to their knees in a rub and tug
It’s a necessary step. While I hope it doesn’t become a situation where every borderline call is challenged (watch it be used as a tactic to buy time for a reliever to warm up), when your average fan is able to see what is in or out of the zone it makes obviously the missed calls look bad on everyone.
The umpire union won’t like it, but it’s way better than letting an aggregious error stand.
I didn’t see every single pitch last night, but there was an at bat for Turang where I swear the pitch was borderline neck high and still was called a strike. He walked anyways so that specific pitch didn’t affect the outcome of the game but the way I understand it, some other missed calls that came up later actually did affect the possible game outcome.
The first step to an automated strike zone. With how fast everyone is throwing and the movement on pitches, it is getting beyond the human capacity to call these accurately. If players evolve, the game has to evolve too
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I was on the fence about this until last night. Those calls were horrendous.
Umpires just fell to their knees in a rub and tug
It’s a necessary step. While I hope it doesn’t become a situation where every borderline call is challenged (watch it be used as a tactic to buy time for a reliever to warm up), when your average fan is able to see what is in or out of the zone it makes obviously the missed calls look bad on everyone.
The umpire union won’t like it, but it’s way better than letting an aggregious error stand.
I didn’t see every single pitch last night, but there was an at bat for Turang where I swear the pitch was borderline neck high and still was called a strike. He walked anyways so that specific pitch didn’t affect the outcome of the game but the way I understand it, some other missed calls that came up later actually did affect the possible game outcome.
The first step to an automated strike zone. With how fast everyone is throwing and the movement on pitches, it is getting beyond the human capacity to call these accurately. If players evolve, the game has to evolve too
As a certified ump hater this is my 12/25
I’ll say this…even before the Turang and Frelick at-bats, I was saying to my wife that the Umpire was awful in both directions. And the [Umpire Scorecard](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1noizk0/roberto_ortizs_umpire_scorecard_from_yesterdays/) backs that up…it was actually pretty even, just bad in both directions.
I said the same thing…last night went and did it. Lol
ABOUT TIME!!!