"Baseball with super-slow motion, 4k replays and cameras that “definitively” determine balls and strikes."
If the robots were assisting the batters or pitchers, your point would stand. However, removing the uncertainty and randomness introduced by an ump having a bad day seems to be fairer to the human players than what we have now.
"Baseball with super-slow motion, 4k replays and cameras that “definitively” determine balls and strikes."
If the robots were assisting the batters or pitchers, your point would stand. However, removing the uncertainty and randomness introduced by an ump having a bad day seems to be fairer to the human players than what we have now.
Frankly, I don't see how a person can call balls and strikes given the definition of the strike zone. The upper and lower limits aren't thin lines. They can't be discerned with precision for any one person, let alone that they differ with each batter. The strike zone is a 3-D invisible space in which a pitched ball only has to partially enter the imaginary space to be a strike. A strike can enter the zone at one point and exit the zone at another point. The umpire is observing at an angle to the plate. The pitch crosses the plate in a fraction of a second. My impression is that the players ask only for consistent calls.
"Baseball with super-slow motion, 4k replays and cameras that “definitively” determine balls and strikes."
If the robots were assisting the batters or pitchers, your point would stand. However, removing the uncertainty and randomness introduced by an ump having a bad day seems to be fairer to the human players than what we have now.
Frankly, I don't see how a person can call balls and strikes given the definition of the strike zone. The upper and lower limits aren't thin lines. They can't be discerned with precision for any one person, let alone that they differ with each batter. The strike zone is a 3-D invisible space in which a pitched ball only has to partially enter the imaginary space to be a strike. A strike can enter the zone at one point and exit the zone at another point. The umpire is observing at an angle to the plate. The pitch crosses the plate in a fraction of a second. My impression is that the players ask only for consistent calls.