ABS challenge system used in spring training could become MLB ready as early as next season
After spring training wraps up next week, MLB’s competition committee will begin collecting data from players, coaches, and ...
Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up
The sport has seen a flurry of rule adjustments in just the past decade and a half, with more on the horizon. America's ...
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When Algorithms Take the Field
Players’ and managers’ efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike zone have long been a part of the game.
When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean ...
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Dave Roberts: MLB Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System ‘All Positive’
Home-plate umpires are still tasked with calling balls ... which is roughly the letters of the jersey to the knees when in a normal stance. MLB took detailed measurements of player heights in ...
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After MLB's flurry of rule changes, what's next for America's pastime?
And now an umpire can call ... as a ball pitched over home plate between a "batter’s shoulders and the top of the uniform pants — when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at ...
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Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up
And now an umpire can call ... as a ball pitched over home plate between a "batter’s shoulders and the top of the uniform pants — when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at ...
Houston Chronicle15d
When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
Batters, pitchers and catchers can challenge a home plate umpire’s ball or strike call ... But what if a player changes their batting stance and decides to crouch? What if they change their ...