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Strike zone changes coming for baseball

VikingDudeVikingDude Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭
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Changes are coming for the strike zone this spring and will be tested during spring training. First will be the use of robo-umps with an automated ball strike system and the second is a 2-challenge limit per team on the calls. I heard a player talking about it on the radio yesterday and he said he was in favor of it. Should be interesting but it is time.
https://nytimes.com/athletic/6085976/2025/01/24/roboumps-test-spring-training-mlb/

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,455 ✭✭✭✭✭

    cant wait for robo ump.

    the most important thing is to just get the call right. every time

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  • bgrbgr Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think I prefer the challenge system. More antagonistic.

  • ElMagoStrikeZoneElMagoStrikeZone Posts: 602 ✭✭✭✭

    I heard when they rolled out the first test model, they named it Angel Hernandez. Could be a rumor.

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  • Basebal21Basebal21 Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 25, 2025 11:52AM

    Personally I think challenges should be unlimited as long as youre right and the first time youre wrong you should lose them. Replay also needs to be way faster, for some reason MLB has the worrst replay system that takes forever like the Umps are just talking about dinner plans.

    Its going to be a wild ride for the strikezone when they do put it in full time which is going to happen at some point. Pitchers will love it since any part of the ball touching it at any point is a strike and theyll be able to bounce sliders in the other batters box and get them called strikes

    Edit to add I wish they would just fire the bad umpires and/or pay some of the homeplate ones a little more and have them call every game instead of rotating them and making all these rule changes because a decent number of them are so bad

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  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Basebal21 said:
    Personally I think challenges should be unlimited as long as youre right and the first time youre wrong you should lose them. Replay also needs to be way faster, for some reason MLB has the worrst replay system that takes forever like the Umps are just talking about dinner plans.

    Its going to be a wild ride for the strikezone when they do put it in full time which is going to happen at some point. Pitchers will love it since any part of the ball touching it at any point is a strike and theyll be able to bounce sliders in the other batters box and get them called strikes

    Edit to add I wish they would just fire the bad umpires and/or pay some of the homeplate ones a little more and have them call every game instead of rotating them and making all these rule changes because a decent number of them are so bad

    As much as your point regarding umpires makes total sense the reality is the umpire's union would never agree to that unfortunately. They as a union are all for one and one for all, including the terrible umpires. This is why umps like Angel Hernandez and Kerwin Danley retain their jobs for as long as they have with no repercussions.

  • Basebal21Basebal21 Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 25, 2025 8:30PM

    @LandrysFedora said:

    @Basebal21 said:
    Personally I think challenges should be unlimited as long as youre right and the first time youre wrong you should lose them. Replay also needs to be way faster, for some reason MLB has the worrst replay system that takes forever like the Umps are just talking about dinner plans.

    Its going to be a wild ride for the strikezone when they do put it in full time which is going to happen at some point. Pitchers will love it since any part of the ball touching it at any point is a strike and theyll be able to bounce sliders in the other batters box and get them called strikes

    Edit to add I wish they would just fire the bad umpires and/or pay some of the homeplate ones a little more and have them call every game instead of rotating them and making all these rule changes because a decent number of them are so bad

    As much as your point regarding umpires makes total sense the reality is the umpire's union would never agree to that unfortunately. They as a union are all for one and one for all, including the terrible umpires. This is why umps like Angel Hernandez and Kerwin Danley retain their jobs for as long as they have with no repercussions.

    Completely agree that it wont happen. I might be be done with MLB if they move the mound back like theyre experimenting with in the Altantric League but I wish we would just use some common sense. Players get demoted or cut for being bad, umpires have a job for life no matter how bad they are which is causing a lot of rule changes

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  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unlimited strike challenges would really slow the game down the way the Home Plate umpires get the calls wrong.... :D

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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,950 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Basebal21 said:

    Edit to add I wish they would just fire the bad umpires and/or pay some of the homeplate ones a little more and have them call every game instead of rotating them and making all these rule changes because a decent number of them are so bad

    Amen to that. Can’t understand why they keep them around.

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  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If minor leagues can do this:
    https://youtu.be/Mmy14Xpr9BQ

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  • 1948_Swell_Robinson1948_Swell_Robinson Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Challenging balls and strikes will be the most anticlimactic occurrence. Yuck.

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