""I think it's embarrassing, embarrassing to the umpires that are calling the game. Nobody likes to be humiliated in front of 30,000, 40,000 people.""
""What Major League Baseball is saying is: I don't trust the umpire's strike zone, so I'm going to use something that's going to be operated by some computer geek that knows nothing about baseball.""
""Umpires were overall their most accurate ever last year. Just not as perfect as technology.""
""The younger generation really wants this technology and they want the certainty of a pitch being a ball or a strike.""
Richie Garcia expresses concern over the introduction of robot umpires in Major League Baseball, feeling it undermines human umpires. The Automated Ball-Strike System, utilizing 12 Hawk-Eye cameras, allows teams to appeal strike zone decisions. Garcia believes this signals a lack of trust in umpires, stating it is embarrassing for them. Despite ongoing debates about calls, umpires achieved their highest accuracy rate last year at 92.83%. Younger umpires, like Ted Barrett, acknowledge a desire for technology to provide certainty in calls.
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