Still wonder why MLB doesn’t do something like this for balls and strikes.
“Still wonder why MLB doesn’t do something like this for balls and strikes.”
Takes away the entertainment value. The umpire is a critical part of the game.
Because the strike zone is supposed to change with the height and stance of the hitter. It would work really good for inside and outside, low and high is where it would get tricky. But it isn’t like the umps really change their zone too much for shorter players vs tall players now, and pitch track doesn’t look like it changes either. So maybe just come up with a standard rectangle height above home plate.
But I think that would mean a lot of 2 hour 13 inning 1-0 games with the relief pitching now, at least for a few years. The zone that is called by the umps looks like a crooked oval depending on lefty/righty hitter, with basically no actual corner calls called correctly.
Freegards
The sensor would have to survive the G-forced when the ball is caught it struck with a bat. They make sensors like that for Army artillery rounds (Copperhead), but they are so expensive the Army hasn’t used very many. Can’t imagine what that would do to the price of a baseball.