re: ABS incorrectly changed 4 strike calls in Yankees game last night

It does seem like all they have done is trade one grouping of missed calls for another. Robbing Peter to pay Paul if you will.

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Then they need to change the rule book of baseball and not hide from it by putting out an electronic zone not following the actual rules. Because if a pitcher can spin the ball in the zone on the very front of the plate that is a strike

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This is so obviously correct, that im not sure how people can disagree.

if the game has changed to the point that you cant follow the rule, then change the rule.

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Ask the MLB why they chose to only use half of the plate and not the entire thing

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because they designed ABS to mimic what umps actually call in the game. They literally admitted their umps don't (or can't) follow the letter of the law.

The rulebook hasn't ever mattered in baseball for strikes and balls. It's been a guideline since it's inception.

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So instead they intentionally chose a system that does not follow the actual rule book on a strike

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I don't get into the letter of the rule book...but just from watching MLB for decades and casually watching ABS overturns...the ABS. Strike zone instinctively seemed too small IMO compared to what had been called a strike for years and years.

I guess humans have been apparently wrong all these years but instinctively and based on conditioning I suppose, it feels off and restrictive and I sorta can understand the Umps frustrations.

The strike window of ABS does seem a bad fit for different batters in the quest to be universally standard or objective. Regardless, there is some cognitive dissonance going on due to years of expectations...its telling me its not a strike against instincts and expectations that it is or used to be. Its bothersome to watch.

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How did you confirm that ABS only uses a two-dimensional reading?

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because the MLB says so on their website

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Is the ABS strike zone three-dimensional?

No. Though the rulebook defines the strike zone as a three-dimensional box, the ABS strike zone is two-dimensional. A three-dimensional version was initially tested, but it allowed breaking balls to nick the edges of the zone, leading to inconsistency in strike calls.

Why is the ABS strike zone over the middle of the plate instead of the front?

In the past, TV broadcasts featured a zone set at the front of the plate. But similar to the 3D testing, having the zone over the front of the plate in initial testing produced odd outcomes, such as slow curveballs that clip the very front edge of the zone and land in the dirt being ruled a strike, even though no one who watches baseball would agree.

When the zone was moved to the middle of the plate, the results were much more in line with where the hitter stands and how the strike zone is traditionally called.

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They had the ability to use an actually accurate 3d zone. They didn’t like the “optics” of actual strikes sometimes hitting the dirt

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Are you retarded?

There’s typically 18-20 inches between a 6’0 tall man’s knee to his flat bottom foot.

There’s no possible way a ball that ends up in the dirt could ever break 18-20 inches from knee to dirt in the distance beyween home plate and where catcher sets up. Zero possible way.

Stop parroting this bullshite. It’s physically imposeinle to throw a pitch that does that

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They literally admitted their umps don't (or can't) follow the letter of the law.

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Except for the fact multiple times last night the ump correctly called a strike and ABS incorrectly changed it to a ball

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This is so wrong There is roughly 3 feet from the catchers glove to the front of the plate. Very easily a strike that crosses the front of the plate can be in the dirt before it gets to the catcher

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Dude….the pitch is coming from 60 feet 6 inches. There’s no possible angle it coiod even be thrown at where it’s still 18 inches off the ground at 60 feet, then 3 additional feet it’s in the dirt. Do the math

The biggest breaking balls will break 20-25 inches from where the pitcher released. 60 feet back.

Nobody is getting 18 of those inches in the last 3 feet. It impossible from a physics standpoint

Its so great watching cb bucknor and other shitty umps have to watch their calls get overturned.