Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
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Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...
Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...
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Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...
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A man in a league of his own, Bruce Lazaruk, was honored Wednesday for dedicating 50 years of service as an umpire on the ...
Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...