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We’ll see but I don’t think that’s going to be the case. The primary use case is the glaring wrong calls. 1/2 a ball in/out of the zone called wrong. The batte
by whartung 1y ago
We’ll see but I don’t think that’s going to be the case.
The primary use case is the glaring wrong calls. 1/2 a ball in/out of the zone called wrong. The batter/catcher/pitcher have to do the challenge, so, ideally, the “obvious” ones should be readily challenged.
But the close calls, the squeakers, the players have very little time to make the challenge and we saw lots of failures in Spring Training this year.
So, there’s still a lot of judgement and uncertainty to deal with. And don’t forget the the Umpires have been being evaluated based on the automated box for years. They review each game and the Umpires performance. It’s just not had actual game impact before.
I have no doubt that there will be some important, game impacting “bad calls” going forward. It just that there will be fewer of them. Also be interesting to see if the get extra challenges in the post season/WS games.