According To MLB Commissioner Having Robot Umps Is Not Far Off

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred was fielding questions on Wednesday and that's when he updated us all that having robot umpires in baseball is not as far off as we think. I had no idea they were even working on it. Per The Athletic...

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“I think we are much closer than we were a year ago to having the technological capability to actually call the strike zone,” Manfred starts. “The accuracy is way up – way better than what it was a year ago. The technology continues to move … and it actually moved a little faster than I might have thought.”

“There remains a fundamental question the owners are going to have to address. When you take away the home-plate umpire’s control over the strike zone, you take away a principal piece of his authority in terms of managing the whole game. … We haven’t had a lot of conversations with (the umpires) on this topic, but I do think there is a serious management-of-the-game issue you’d have to think about with respect to that change.”

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I can see robots being more accurate than umps. That's until they take over the human race. Thoughts?

(Yardbarker)