The human element should be the players, not the umpires. Players make enough

Apr 16, 2019
9:58:17am

cougaman All-American

mistakes to make it interesting. Nobody is paying to see an umpire steal the shoe and make a big strike 3 call on a pitch well off the plate.

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MLB needs the electronic strike Zone. So frustrating to see Umps call pitches

cougaman

4/15/19 11:47pm

It's that the same pitches were balls in the top of the inning, but strikes in

wabluecoug

4/15/19 11:56pm

I bet there were 10 in today's game for Cleveland, and there were a number of

cougaman

4/16/19 12:10am

That's what pitch tracker showed. The M's had one bad one go their way, but the

wabluecoug

4/16/19 12:16am

How many strikes called balls for each side? I didn't see the whole game. Is

cougaman

4/16/19 12:25am

Also, I don't know if the calls would have made a difference or not in the

cougaman

4/16/19 12:15am

It made a difference yesterday, bad calls changed critical at bats in the 8th

wabluecoug

4/16/19 12:17am

Yes they made a difference, but who knows if they would change the outcome.

cougaman

4/16/19 12:40am

Baseball is more fun with umpires calling balls and strikes.

Y2k

4/16/19 2:06am

Umps probably about 90% on balls and strikes but just

notsofast

4/16/19 6:07am

I bet closer to 98%. And for the 2% they are off they are probably 99%

unctoothman

4/16/19 6:53am

This. It's counter-intuitive, but the game is more interesting because of the

Odysseus

4/16/19 6:10am

The human element should be the players, not the umpires. Players make enough

cougaman

4/16/19 9:58am

It’s part of the game for batters to know they have to swing at anything close

Y2k

4/17/19 8:08am

It's also part of the strategy for batters to get ahead in the count so that

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