DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Veteran starter Max Scherzer made his debut with the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, but it was also his first appearance on the mound in Major League Baseball's automated ball-strike system era.
He's not a fan of it.
In fact, in a two-inning appearance in which Scherzer looked quite sharp against the St. Louis Cardinals, he came up on the short end of two robot challenges that turned strikes into balls.
"I'm a little skeptical on this," Scherzer told The Athletic after a performance in which he struck out four Cardinals in two innings.