Posted on 07/11/2019 1:05:58 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Good.
We are SF Giant fans, and we can’t believe how the bad calls by the home plate umpires have turned games around for the losers in the past 5 years or so.
Also, how about starting games earlier instead of 7:10 pm.
: ) Good point.
Needs to happen. The umps all have “their” strike zone. When Schilling mentioned studying tape of the umps to master their individual quirks MLB should have panicked and made the umps enforce the actual rules.
Amen: layers like consistency. They learn what the umpires do from umps to umps. With robots they don’t have to adjust from game to game, more consistency. You’ll never get consistency from one ump to another on balls and strikes.,
The rule books tell us very specically what is the strike zone..
Umps should not have the power to change that zone when they feel like it.
I bet scoring goes up. When batters can actually know what the strike zone is before the game starts they’ll have better judgement on what needs to be swung at.
When i worked 1969 I was told to cll stork’s 2 inches outside and nothing above the waist. That was minor league.
In reality by the time someone make sit to the bogs, they have formed their strike zone. Pitchers cut and move the ball in various ways. Batters are different heights, even the length of the shins to the knees.
To say that all umpires will call every pitch the same way is impossible. They’re human. That’s why the pitcher for batters will say, he’s a low-ball ump or whatever. they accept differences between umps, but want a particular ump to be consistent in the same game.
Robots will replace at least half the umps and we will miss the fights, but replays already are doing that.
I think it needs to happen too. I hope they can actually eventually incorporate individual stances and change the zone accordingly within a particular at bat. There are a few players that actually still spread out and get low with a two strike approach, shrinking the zone is part of that. It’s going kill run scoring for a while if they implement it, I think anyway. If that happens it also shortens up the games, at least for a while.
Freegards
Houston could have used one with the recent safe/out debacle. That was a pitiful call
CALL STRIKES
Watch any inning of baseball with the strike zone shown on the screen, and you will see a number of wrongly called balls and strikes. A computer calling consistent balls and strikes per the rule book, imho, would be a positive change for baseball.
Inevitable. It will come to football too. Chip the football and there will be no more arguing about spots, out of bounds, or TDs that break the plane. The exact position of the football will be known at all times.
It is coming. And why not?
It will probably even out eventually as players get used to it come up from the pipeline and current players adjust. In my opinion no way does offense go up—the zone is going to expand because they haven’t called the high strike for ever. The current pros are all used to that small zone. And a ball that just kisses the black is going to be called a strike 100% of the time now.
Freegards
5 years after these changes young people will stare at us puzzles as we describe the old days.
Think a robot can call a walk in the NBA?
On Fox the high part of the strike zone is programmed into the4 machine in accordance with the rule book. No one in the league wants a high strike called because the pitchers are told to keep the ball down.
what is it up to now, 4 steps? LOL
it doesn’t pick a pitch up or if it registers a pitch that’s a foot-and-a-half off the plate as a strike
Then we will get Robot Pitchers! When the Batters can’t hit the superfast perfect strikes from the new pitchers, we will get Robot Batters,....
Robot judges at the Ninth Circus and Chief Justice might be in the offing. /sarc
As the technology improves, I welcome it.
MLB and the Atlantic League made a partnership this year. (The Atlantic League is an independent league, generally believed to be of approximately AA-AAA quality. It’s the class of the independents.)
The Atlantic League is testing a lot of potential new rules for MLB. The electronic umpire is one of them.
This isn’t the worst one. They’re even testing moving the mound.
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