MLB plans 'robot umps' to call balls, strikes during spring training games

[RubinRock]

They must have changed the article! The link you posted says the exact opposite.

It says that the electronic strike zone will be used in 9 games in Florida....during spring training.

 

[Rock Strongo]

They must have changed the article! The link you posted says the exact opposite.

LOL youre RIGHT! now it says they clarified the rules, sane link.

Hours after baseball commissioner Rob Manfred indicated that an electronic strike zone would be used in spring training games, the executive committee of the umpires' union clarified that news, indicating that the electronics would not be used in place of a plate ump's judgment.

Rather, as umpires go through their regular spring work, MLB will be operating an electronic zone for nine games in Florida as it continues to refine its system that is expected to be implemented in the years ahead.

 

[steveringo]

It says that the electronic strike zone will be used in 9 games in Florida....during spring training.

Not in place of Umps, though...

"Our understanding is that a camera-based tracking system will be running in the background during some spring training games for technology development and training purposes."

They've done this in the past (See QuesTec). And during real games....

 

[Rex Racer]

here we go fellas!

MLB 'robot umps' to call pitches in spring training

 

[packerzrule]

here we go fellas!

MLB 'robot umps' to call pitches in spring training

The beginning of the end

 

[black francis]

rock gets me all excited

ringo brings me back down to earth

fuck

 

[navamind]

 

[broncosmitty]

Bout done with this sport.

 

[Cedrique]

Deal with that, robots

 

[R.J. MacReady]

The beginning of the end

It should have never had a beginning.

Do you realize the insanity of a person trying to determine where a ball lands while they stand behind the catcher?

Judging the depth of the ball from that position is ridiculous ...having the Ump behind the pitcher would have made a lot more sense.

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[Sparhawk]

Minor league baseball moving 2nd base 15" towards home so that it too nestles into its appropriate corner.....

 

[Picklerick 2.0]

It should have never had a beginning.

Do you realize the insanity of a person trying to determine where a ball lands while they stand behind the catcher?

Judging the depth of the ball from that position is ridiculous ...having the Ump behind the pitcher would have made a lot more sense.

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I've always thought that.

 

[broncosmitty]

It should have never had a beginning.

Do you realize the insanity of a person trying to determine where a ball lands while they stand behind the catcher?

Judging the depth of the ball from that position is ridiculous ...having the Ump behind the pitcher would have made a lot more sense.

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What?

There are umpires at bases and on foul lines. Home plate is a base. And is the convergence of both foul lines.

 

[R.J. MacReady]

What?

There are umpires at bases and on foul lines. Home plate is a base. And is the convergence of both foul lines.

That was about the proposed use of an electronic strike zone ..not foul lines.


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