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Yeah, don't over-complicate things.
If the eye(s) in the sky can track the speed, trajectory, launch angles, and distances of batted balls across the acreage of the ball field then it can track it into (or not) a more or less static box. And, unlike the umps mask, it won't take a wicked foul tip into the electronics four or five times per game.
Gary, who tends to be against this sort of progress and has previously described the minor league trials of ROBO-UMP as disastrous, admitted the other night that more recent results have shown great improvement. He added (or has resigned himself) that this is coming and it could be within five years.
Personally, I'd like it here in the next five weeks but Manfred's office has asked for my input lately. Not sure of the source for these status reports Gary is passing along or whether they're even reports at all but rather just anecdotal tidbits.
Between this sort of stuff, the CBA, and (hopefully) some kind of commitment to REAL pace of play adjustments, this could be a real big off-season for the sport above and beyond just the usual FA/trade news.
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