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How computers are taking over baseball
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Major League Baseball fans are freaking out over the idea of computer umpires in baseball. But in a partnership with MLB, the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is already using Trackman technology to electronically call balls and strikes. And if things continue to progress, we could see computerized strike zones in the Majors within a few years.
Jeff Bakalar got to check out Trackman in action, and face an 80MPH fastball in the process.
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I have the ball he hit.
Will batters change their stance to compensate? Or the umpires could override.
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Jeff, great video! You should link up with Michael Lewis. His podcast Against the Rules, especially his first episode, is a must listen. It’s mostly the same topic and honestly what makes this so interesting is none of these guys are the high paid star players. Lewis’s theory is that this will create the most friction with star players, and then their coaches, and then their fans. This video may be a time capsule into how sentiment evolves for the technology because if Lewis is correct, a lot of people will HATE this only after it hits the Majors and affects star pitcher and star batter stats.
Maybe they should let the announcers and colormen call balls and strikes because the TV viewer sees the zone in real-time.
I can’t wait!
But how do I watch this on cnet through a slideshow?!
I’m freaking out in a good way. Umpires can still stand there and pretend to call balls and strikes but at this point they honestly deserve to go the way of the do-do bird. Some people love the drama they bring but umpires, especially home plate umpires, are power tripping fools and horribly inconsistent. They also get paid way too much to do what they do.
Cricket had it for years
Laptops are taking over football 🙌🙌🙌
It was very kind of Jeff to take it easy on the pitcher.
If you’re going to interview Sparky Lyle about his pitching.…don’t you think it would be a good idea to study a little bit of film on him and at least know about him yourself instead of saying, “You threw a good slider.….so I’ve heard.“
C’mon guys. The internet is your friend. Take a few minutes and do some research.
I couldn’t care less about baseball, but this was actually really interesting. Well done all around!
Jeff the man is here! Great Video! Interesting to know the future of Baseball lol Peter Gabriel
More of this, CNET. More Bakalar.
Wow Jeff wasn’t lying on the Beastcast, he really is at peak male physical performance!
If Trackman will call the high strike — which MLB has been unable to force (human) umpires to call — then I’m all for it. Warts & all.
Nobody wants computers taking over a human game, but batters and managers complaining over every pitch is ridiculous.
Great video man.… keep it up …quality stuff
Drama makes for good TV .. this eliminates it.
Yeah but when are they going to have a hockey robot?
Video ref is inevitable but this definitely doesn’t look ready for prime time just yet.
I really hope they don’t use this thing because it will ruin baseball. Part of the game is the umpire calling things as they see fit sometimes. The whole idea of baseball has so much surrounding it than just standard rules. There are friendships and rivals with both players and umpires. You put this crap in the game you remove a significant portion of why it’s America’s favorite past time. It doesn’t need to be slaughtered with technology. This would ruin the classic game.
It’s better to get call right than factor in human emotions or error. I say there should be more technology in sports, not less.
They agreed to do press to advertise the tech, but didn’t want to show the software or demonstrate it?
This is the best thing baseball could do. When MLB implements this, I may just start watching baseball again.
I think having the umpire relay the call through the earpiece will go away quickly, but I’m having a hard time imagining how it will happen. A Siri-like voice announcing each pitch automatically over the PA might be amusing though. Really, I’m all for the robo ump but it’ll probably mean the end of an era when umpires like Dutch Rennert could add their own theatrical touch to the called third strike. That’ll be sad.
Great vid Bakalar.
Jeff, Thank you for the video.
Finally got around to watching this. So that’s how they’ll do it! Okay that makes a ton of sense. I was wondering what the role of an ump would be, pitch to pitch, but this makes perfect sense. I can’t wait until it’s implemented in MLB.
every time and empire changes a game whether it be balls or strikes or whos safe… Real time umps. is the only way to save baseaball… there is NOT enough good % baseball ups