For crying out loud, can MLB please implement an electronic strike zone already?

Image recognition software.

Why don't they us it with pitch f now?

That would be a question for PitchFX.

That would be a question for PitchFX.

Perhaps because it doesn't work?

No. It would be almost trivial to adjust strike zone sizes. You have sub-$1k cameras and cell phones that do good facial recognition.

No. It would be almost trivial to adjust strike zone sizes. You have sub-$1k cameras and cell phones that do good facial recognition.

Well pitch fx has a set zone that doesn't vary with batters stance. If it's so simple why don't they use it to make things more accurate?

Well pitch fx has a set zone that doesn't vary with batters stance. If it's so simple why don't they use it to make things more accurate?

No real incentive to.

No real incentive to.

What's the point of having it at all if it's not accurate?

Don't ask me, but adjusting strike zone size is far simpler than tracking a 93 mph slider to an accuracy of a fraction of an inch.

For the time being, yes ...... the players are still human.

Give it time, though.

By 2023, somebody will start a thread entitled, For Crying out Loud, Can the Orioles Please Implement Electronic Players Already?

Bonds, A-Rod, Ortiz and Clemens were not human. They were enhanced humans.

Had one in the '50's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/sports/baseball/more-machine-than-man-an-electric-umpires-call-of-the-future.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Erskine, now 89, recalled that a main purpose of the electronic umpire was to help Snider, his roommate.

“Duke had trouble with the high fastball — he couldn’t lay off it and he couldn’t hit it,” Erskine said. “So Mr. Rickey would have Duke get in the batting cage and not swing at pitches and let the machine register them. And Duke actually began to learn the strike zone, and he began to hit the high pitches better and lay off the ones he couldn’t hit.”

Had one in the '50's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/sports/baseball/more-machine-than-man-an-electric-umpires-call-of-the-future.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Don't ask me, but adjusting strike zone size is far simpler than tracking a 93 mph slider to an accuracy of a fraction of an inch.

It's too bad we won't see it this year. I'd love to see Ortiz turn around to argue a third strike call and, when he realized what had happened, use his bat to smash to pieces the nearest piece of electronic equipment. They might even fine him, but probably not since he's such a class guy.

It's too bad we won't see it this year. I'd love to see Ortiz turn around to argue a third strike call and, when he realized what had happened, use his bat to smash to pieces the nearest piece of electronic equipment. They might even fine him, but probably not since he's such a class guy.

Bump....

My God that third strike on Davis was one of the worst calls I have ever seen. You never know but thankfully it was in a 7-0 game. Nevertheless, MLB right now is like the NFL in 1980 refusing to use instant replay. Everyone can see what the call should have been, but "human error is a part of the game." A phrase I never understood. "Hey you know what should be an "unwritten" rule, once or twice a game the umps should get a call on a rule completely wrong. It makes things more intersitng..."

It was close. I have seen much much worse. Have you seen a CB Buckner game?

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