Good morning, Camden Chatters.
Yesterday was a fairly quiet day for MLB roster moves, with Carlos Correa finally having successfully completed a physical and signed with Minnesota to take the last remaining big-name free agent off the market. But there was still some notable baseball news, as ESPN’s Buster Olney reported that all Triple-A parks will use an electronic strike zone — slangily referred to as “robot umpires” — for the upcoming 2023 season.
Olney writes that half of the AAA ballparks will have every pitch called by the ABS (Automatic Balls and Strikes) system, while the other half will still have a home plate umpire make the calls but use ABS for ball-strike challenges.