Cherish This World Series. It's the Last One in Human Hands

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/world-series-robo-umpires.html

by ChrisArchitect • 9 months ago

2 4 9 months ago

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/world-series-robo...

superbowl• 9 months ago

"The Automated Ball-Strike (A.B.S.) challenge system, known informally as the robot ump, is coming to your local major league ballpark on Opening Day in 2026."

FrankenDino• 9 months ago

An over-the-top clickbait headline to promote the author's new book. The important clarification appears in paragraph 9 of the article:

"the challenge system that will be introduced next year, which gives each team two chances per nine innings to ask for an automated second guess"

Someday, fully-automated balls-and-strikes calls may come to Baseball. But the change for next season is nothing more than the home plate equivalent of American football's challenge flag.

ChrisArchitect2• 9 months ago

Some related discussion a month ago:

MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354304

Cherish This World Series. It's the Last One in Human Hands

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