#automated-balls-and-strikes

#automated-balls-and-strikes

"I feel like 100 is the new 95," said Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Will Klein, who first hit 100 in a summer ball all-star game in 2020 and expects to again this season, having topped out thus far at 98.8 mph. "It used to be, 'You throw 95, that's gas.' Now, it's 100. And now you see starters out there sitting 100."

The Cubs are going to miss Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani, and Tyler Glasnow. Missing any one of those guys would have been nice. Missing all three is an absolute dream.

During Saturday's game between the Red Sox and the Reds, Eugenio Suarez challenged Bucknor on back-to-back strike three calls and successfully had them overturned by the robo ump. It doesn't matter that Suarez ultimately grounded out. What matters is that, in a game where the Reds hit two home runs, the loudest cheers came for a pair of successful ABS challenges.

Kyle Schwarber's 16.9% O-swing rate this year is among the 11 lowest in MLB, indicating he rarely swings at pitches outside the strike zone.

The idea that the Automated Balls and Strikes challenge system is going to constantly humiliate umpires is, to me, a ridiculous concern. We're talking about hundreds of calls in a game, with upwards of 100 games per week, and 99.9% of the time, ABS doesn't even factor into a pitch at all.

What happens if there is a strikeout (or a walk) in a major moment and everyone is all hyped and excited, but then we have to wait for an ABS review, and it totally changes the mood? I definitely want to see the calls corrected in the big moments, so it's not like I'm complaining about ABS. I just wonder about how those really big exciting strikeout/walk moments might change.