Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred works to manage public perception of the sport amid the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal and forthcoming punishment of the Boston Red Sox, he additionally has worked to continue evolving and improving the game.
Under Manfred, MLB has notably implemented a slew of rule changes that aimed to improve pace of play, and now the league is inching closer to utilizing an automated strike zone. Informally dubbed robot umpires, the system is expected to be used during Spring Training games.
Now, however, MLB appears to be considering arguably its most aggressive change(s) in quite some time, and as a result the postseason picture may look drastically different as soon as 2022.