The plate is a 17 inch square. About the only way to do it would be to set a pre-measured height of the player into the computer before he steps in, put a chip in a shoe, and pre-read the zone. So unless the pitcher has some really good stuff, he will be throwing a 95 MPH fastball to a professional hitter, and won’t be able to use the corners near as much. It’ll be like batting practice only with more walks. And the public does not want to see those.
rwood
Seems to me the only way to do it right would be to have sensors across the chest and knees of the hitter’s uni to get the height of the strike zone if his stance changes during the at bat.
With the electronic ump the high strike will finally be called again. That will mow through this crop of hitters until they make an adjustment on something that has been the same their whole baseball careers into the pros and is now different. And the adjustment has to be to one of the hardest things to do consistently in sports. It’s going to take a while.
Freegards