How long will we even have human umpires calling balls and strikes? AI will be doing it before long and every venue will have the exact same strike zone.
That’ll be horrible to have AI and computers running the game. Let’s let big tech make everything as soulless as possible.
The ABS (Automatic Balls-Strikes System) is coming. In was tested during Spring Training at selected parks.
There’s a way to stop that - umpires getting to be more consistent in their calls of balls/strikes.