Robot Umpires 🤖
I was watching the Blue Jays vs Brewers game yesterday afternoon and made a mental note that the home plate umpiring was exceptionally bad. This morning, recalling my observation from yesterday, I checked the umpire scorecards from yesterday's games to see if I was correct.
Behold.
Only 79% of strikes called correctly, or said differently 21% of strikes called incorrectly. 21% is a far too large a number in my opinion. This post is not meant as cope or umpire blaming for another pathetic Jays loss, they earned every bit of their loss, but instead to question why in 2024 it is considered acceptable for such an important element of the game to just be wrong 21% of the time.
Minor League Baseball is testing a ball and strike challenge system. I for one hope MLB expedites the process of at least integrating a challenge system if they aren't going to go full automated strike zone (Robot Umpires).
What's your stance on Robot Umpires? or more broadly the increased usage of technology and eventually AI to officiate sporting events?
Sats for all,
GR