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:
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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.