Axios -"Computers will be used for ball/strike calls starting April 25 in the independent Atlantic League," AP's Ronald Blum
writes:
- "Plate umpires will wear earpieces and be informed of ball/strike calls by a TrackMan computer system that uses Doppler radar."
- "Umps will have the ability to override the computer, which considers a pitch a strike when the ball bounces and then crosses the zone."
Good news for humans:
Joe West, who has umpired more than 5,000 big league games and is on
track to break Bill Klem's record in 2020, said a past TrackMan test was
spotty, missing 500 pitches in one month.
- "The beauty of baseball is that it's not foolproof," said West, who umpired his first big league game in 1976.
1 comment:
OK, call me a 'romantic', a 'dreamer', or 'just crazy'; but I agree with Joe West in thinking that "The beauty of baseball is that it's not foolproof".
That's part of the Charm! A broken bat, a strong wind out of the East at Wrigley Field, or maybe just rain.
Just as I am absolutely opposed to 'driverless cars', I feel that having computers telling the plate umpire whether a pitch is a Ball / Strike actually eliminates something from the Game, and deprives the fans of somebody to vent their frustrations at.
Yup, I'm over 65.
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