When do you think we’ll reach a tipping point where fans are essentially demanding that a computer call balls and strikes?
It is amazing that for 150 years or so, ballplayers have had to adjust their approach to the most essential part of the game to the whims of some random dude behind the plate.
Problem for baseball is the fans are so stuck in their ways. They’re a lot like soccer fans in loving the parts of the game that actual hurt it. I’ve seen people right here on FR declare the variable strike zone is part of the cherished tradition of the sport that draws the players in the first place. I thought this change was less than a decade out when Curt Schilling talked about studying tape of the umps, and that was more than 10 years ago. Kind of like with the opera MLB just needs these old farts to hurry up and die already.