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An argument against robo umps

Let’s do something here. Here is the percentage of pitches thrown out of the zone across all of Major League Baseball that have been called as strikes, year by year since 2015:

Okay. Now here’s the percentage of all MLB pitches inside the zone that were called balls. Again, since 2015:

I’m sure you noticed something here, right? Umpires have gotten better in recent years, and very quickly. Yet, the automated strikezone keeps striding forward ruthlessly, contaminating baseball with its pragmatism.