If anyone from MLB or BAM reads HN and is in this thread ... Do Not Do This. Here's why: Right now, all of the criticism about the calls of balls and strikes

If anyone from MLB or BAM reads HN and is in this thread ... Do Not Do This. Here's why: Right now, all of the criticism about the calls of balls and strikes - criticism that might seem unique for this season but isn't - is directed at individual umps. You do this, and build an automation tool to replace them, and you've just redirected the entire fan rage from an ump who makes a bad call or two at a critical point in the game and aimed it at the institution of baseball. While you may feel like this season has seen a lot of criticism of balls and strike calls, it only seems that way because of, well, the internet. You may also think "if we just make this thing uniform, with math and automation, then it really will be fair", but it won't be. This is important to note because, again, if you take the human element out of this and replace it with a machine you are signing yourself up for constant criticism and risk. Moreover, you are introducing a new kind of risk into the game (an attack surface that hasn't existed before). Think of the Houston Trash Can Scandal, but instead of an analog signal based on an auditory input, it's some paid bad actor who manipulates the system making calls at critical points in the game. I hesitate to use the word "hack" but is it really that outside the realm of possibility? With a World Series on the line, Houston did what they did out in the open. You don't think someone would lose their scruples and try to do it on the backend if this existed? Third, and this may be a bit "old man yells at cloud", but if you do this you are removing one of the best parts of the game. The human element, where a reasonable person can watch a ball go across the plate, and it's just outside that little box the broadcast booth puts on, the ump calls strike three, and you as a fan let it go because, ya know what, "ehh he coulda hit that I think".