Should Baseball Batters be allowed to Challenge Strike Calls?

[Ferengi Prime 5]

In today's baseball, we have computers that can track pitches and say if it was a strike or not. Here is a website that scores Umpires in each game they call strikes and balls. The scores are not that good for some so I propose that each at-bat a (player)batter should have the right to challenge one pitch call.

https://umpscorecards.com/games/

 

[Ferengi Prime 5]

Here are two Umpire's scorecards... Players should have the right to challenge Umpires Strike calls at each at bat.

 

[Ferengi Prime 5]

Videos: Time to change the rules...

https://twitter.com/umpscores?lang=en

https://twitter.com/i/status/1518412705887145985

https://twitter.com/i/status/1188646834518085632

 

[tomalak301]

I would like robotic umps, but if we can't get that, I would love a tennis like challenge for balls and strikes. Say you can challenge as much as you want, but a failed challenge is a strike against you. Then the challenge would be like tennis where it only takes like 2 seconds and the game continues. It just seems more prevalent than ever that the Umps are becoming too centered in the game, especially Angel Hernandez, who shouldn't be a MLB Umpire.

 

[oberth]

I would like robotic umps, but if we can't get that, I would love a tennis like challenge for balls and strikes. Say you can challenge as much as you want, but a failed challenge is a strike against you. Then the challenge would be like tennis where it only takes like 2 seconds and the game continues. It just seems more prevalent than ever that the Umps are becoming too centered in the game, especially Angel Hernandez, who shouldn't be a MLB Umpire.

robots? nah ...

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[Ar-Pharazon]

Batter's challenging any and every call would make the games take 6 or 7 hours.

I do agree that most umps have either a) shitty judgement as to where the strike zone is, and/or b) a generally sloppy and inconsistent strike zone. I think a majority of batters would agree that, as long as an ump is consistent about the zone, they would mostly be OK with it.

Of course HD TV and strike zone boxes make it more obvious to us watching when they make bad calls. I'm all for having an AI strike zone, but keeping the human umps for all the other botched calls

What they really need is a camera directly over home plate for those swing/no swing calls (could also help with inside/outside strike calls). Based on the rule, the corner umps are basically guessing 80% of the time.

As long as the AI shit doesn't get out of hand.

 

[Timby]

We have a general baseball discussion thread. Move this discussion there.