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Technical Issues' Stall MLB's Adoption of Robots to Call Balls and Strikes
Will Major League Baseball games use "automated" umpires next year to watch pitches from home plate and call balls and strikes? "We still have some technical issues," baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday. NBC News reports: "We haven't made as much progress in the minor leagues this yea...
Will Major League Baseball games use "automated" umpires next year to watch pitches from home plate and call balls and strikes? Manfred cites "a growing consensus in large part" from Major League players that that's how they'd want to see robo-umpiring implemented, according to a post on X.com from The Athletic's Evan Drellich. Discerning balls from strikes has always been challenging, and the stuff of the contemporary major-league pitcher has made anything like perfect accuracy beyond the capabilities of the human eye.
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