MLB 2024: Rangers Conquer Texas, Then America

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Alex

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I don't like replay in sports, especially not baseball. I enjoy the human element of umps getting calls wrong and teams having to overcome. My only concern with balls and strikes is that they are consistent, in fact I enjoy it more when an ump has a goofy zone for the night as long as he is calling it the same for both teams and then watching which pitchers are able to adjust to his zone. I will miss that if they take it away.

Personally I would much rather assign the top 15 (or however many umpiring crews there are) umpires for calling balls and strikes to be the home plate umpires, with the next 15 being assigned as backups - so each crew has a home plate ump and a backup home plate ump over robo strike calling. That should lower the amount of bad calls but still leave room for the human element over
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TheNozz

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Ameraves said:
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Chanur

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I don't want to love The Dodgers because of their bullshit pride crap. How ever as soon as baseball rolls around it tugs at my childhood, then when playoffs hit the tug becomes hard to resist.
 
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Chanur

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Daezuel said:
There are a ton in LA mostly due to the Montana years.

People bandwagon the glamor teams from years past, especially in LA
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That's because casual sports fans in LA only love winners. They are fairweather as fuck. Unless you are the Dodgers or Lakers.
 
Dalien

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Kobayashi said:
Here's a crazy idea: fuck the umpires and let balls and strikes be called completely accurately by a computer. Why are we still pussyfooting around this with half measures? If the automated system is good enough to make the determination on a challenge, it's good enough to be used on every call. It seems the only reason they're not implementing it is that it will drive scoring down since pitchers can paint the corners, but hitters will adjust.
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The league has been wanting to implement an automated strike zone but hasn't been able to because of their contract with the umpire's union. Their contract expires this year so the league has been negotiating with them.

They've been testing it in Triple A for quite a few years and are apparently going to use it in spring training next season, per google:

MLB has been experimenting with an automated ball-strike system, also known as the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system, at the minor league level for the past five years. In 2023, the system was used at all Triple-A ballparks. MLB hopes to test the system during spring training in 2025, which could make an automated ball-strike component possible as early as 2026.
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Can't come soon enough. It's fucking stupid that the millions of people watching on TV know immediately if it's a ball or strike, but we have to rely on Angel Hernandez to make the correct call.
 
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Kobayashi

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Cleveland said:
nothing is better when a team gets hosed in bad call and then they level up and overcome it
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I personally hate every time a ref or umpire blows a call, or even worse, applies different rules to different players. In my opinion, the more subjective elements you can remove from the sport, the better. Basketball I can't even watch anymore since nothing is ever applied even remotely evenly.
 
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Kobayashi

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Dalien said:
The league has been wanting to implement an automated strike zone but hasn't been able to because of their contract with the umpire's union. Their contract expires this year so the league has been negotiating with them.

They've been testing it in Triple A for quite a few years and are apparently going to use it in spring training next season, per google:



Can't come soon enough. It's fucking stupid that the millions of people watching on TV know immediately if it's a ball or strike, but we have to rely on Angel Hernandez to make the correct call.
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In the linked article, Manfred's goal is to have some form of it implemented by the end of his tenure which is 28-29. Slow down guys. I'd be ok with permanently locking out the umpires if they stonewall implementing the system - figure out a way to automate everything else they do too and good riddance.
 
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Gavinmad

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This was more or less the way I wanted the Yankees to lose, I just wanted it to happen in game 7 for maximum panic from Dodgers fans.
 
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