Mark T. Williams, the James E. Freeman Lecturer in Management at Boston University Questrom School of Business, and a team of graduate students at the Questrom School of Business experienced in data mining, analytics, and statistics spent more than two months analyzing almost 4,000,000 pitches over the past 11 MLB seasons. (all emphasis below is mine)
Baseball is here, another season of amazing catches, overpowering pitching, tape-measure home runs, overpriced beers, and, yes, television replays of every missed call by umpires, revealed in painful, high-definition slow motion.
It's time for Major League Baseball to put an end to the agony caused by at least some of those blown calls—the balls and strikes.