This isn’t how Robo-Ump worked at the AAA level though… They used the Hawk-Eye system, which replaced Trackman because of accuracy issues. The AAA trial also accounted for height of the batter
If it was a tool for the umpires to confirm close calls at real time and without set average strike zone. Let the umpires adjust what the ball strike boundaries to what they think it is.
I’m expecting them to do it as a challenge system to keep the human element in the game. It would be plenty fast enough and with the implementation of the pitch clock, the game will be faster anyway.
Yea no. You need to make the box adjusted to the player. Otherwise smaller players have a strike zone of their chest down and tall players from their ankles down
I can't wait for a real legit robo ump that is accurate to within an inch or less. It's far overdue. And it feels like we have the capability in our grasp. A simple buzz in the umpire's ear if the ball is in the zone, and he can make the remaining call on if the batter offers on the pitch. But @CloseCallSports says that the current system doesn't allow real time calls with enough accuracy. I'm not sure what accuracy they're deeming as inadequate, but they say that the non-real-time calls would have to be used via a challenge system. Which is absolutely horrible. Challenges just delay the game unnecessarily. All plays should be reviewed, and if the result of the play is clearly wrongly adjudicated, they should correct it. If it's too difficult to tell within a couple of replays, then let the play continue. So I'm against what is the current proposal, another fucking challenge system. Replay should be transparent, and only used for the clearest of errors, like Armando Galarraga's perfect game last out (which, BTW MLB should immediately classify as a perfect game because duh). Don't use challenges, use honest umps in a broadcast booth to get EVERY call right, not just ones that manages feel are important enough to challenge or ones that they can't challenge because they used their one challenge already. Get the game right.
In order for it to be implemented into the MLB it would definitely have to adjust to heights of the players
This isn’t how Robo-Ump worked at the AAA level though… They used the Hawk-Eye system, which replaced Trackman because of accuracy issues. The AAA trial also accounted for height of the batter
So you’re telling me Aaron Judge and Jose Altuve have the same zone?
If it was a tool for the umpires to confirm close calls at real time and without set average strike zone. Let the umpires adjust what the ball strike boundaries to what they think it is.
I’m expecting them to do it as a challenge system to keep the human element in the game. It would be plenty fast enough and with the implementation of the pitch clock, the game will be faster anyway.
Yea no. You need to make the box adjusted to the player. Otherwise smaller players have a strike zone of their chest down and tall players from their ankles down
I can't wait for a real legit robo ump that is accurate to within an inch or less. It's far overdue. And it feels like we have the capability in our grasp. A simple buzz in the umpire's ear if the ball is in the zone, and he can make the remaining call on if the batter offers on the pitch.
But @CloseCallSports says that the current system doesn't allow real time calls with enough accuracy. I'm not sure what accuracy they're deeming as inadequate, but they say that the non-real-time calls would have to be used via a challenge system. Which is absolutely horrible.
Challenges just delay the game unnecessarily. All plays should be reviewed, and if the result of the play is clearly wrongly adjudicated, they should correct it. If it's too difficult to tell within a couple of replays, then let the play continue.
So I'm against what is the current proposal, another fucking challenge system. Replay should be transparent, and only used for the clearest of errors, like Armando Galarraga's perfect game last out (which, BTW MLB should immediately classify as a perfect game because duh). Don't use challenges, use honest umps in a broadcast booth to get EVERY call right, not just ones that manages feel are important enough to challenge or ones that they can't challenge because they used their one challenge already.
Get the game right.