Do MLB umpires WANT to be replaced by a computer on balls/strikes?

100%.

Everyone is interested in losing their jobs to automation.

That should have already happened.

Technology was awful when they tried it.

It would have to be much more effective than what we already have for me to even consider it. If they implemented it right now I would probably stop watching.

Umpires have been worse than usual this season

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In a sport where a game can ride on a single human judgment call made from a poor sight line, there's no reason not to do this.

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The Braves got fricked out of championships by poor officiating.

I absolutely hate umps calling balls and strikes behind the plate. I think it is stupid not to go to computer called games. It's fair for both teams and takes personal bias out of the game.

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The robot ump/automated strike zone is one technical advancement where I just can't understand why the MLB would be resistant to it. The strike zones have been all over the place this year.

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There are still kinks in the robot umps...they aren't 100%. There is human error involved in how the zone is implemented and designed and there is also a certain amount of interpretation in entering the data for the program that determines balls and strikes.

Now are they more accurate than human umps, I'm sure they are but some folks think they are balls on 100% correct every pitch and that's just not the case. Several articles available on it for anyone interested....Like this:

Properly calibrated, SportsVision claims Pitch f/x is accurate to within 1 inch, with the following significant limitations (hint: PFX is rarely "properly" calibrated):

Measurement Error (Calibration Error) by Stadium can be greater than 1.5 inches horizontally and 1.1 inches vertically. For instance, between 2007 and 2010, the largest measurement errors were: 2007 (Metrodome, 2.7 inches, Dolphin Stadium 2.4 inches & Fenway Park (1.7 inches), 2009 (Dodger Stadium, 1.9 inches) and 2010 (Miller Park 1.7 inches). This is a statistically significant error of >10%.

Pitch Location Drifting can occur during a game. Like anything else, the triangulated PFX naturally adjusts (lighting changes, the stadium itself actually moving with 40,000+ people in house, etc.) throughout the course of a game or series, resulting in location error.

Catcher reception, how catchers receive pitches. MLB's Zone Evaluation metrics, for instance, are what the League wants umpires to call. A catcher who absolutely butchers the reception of a pitch that winds up in the dirt probably won't get a strike call even if the pitch passes through the lowest portion of the strike zone—because that's how baseball has been played for the past century and the league wants to keep it that way. PFX will have it as a strike. ZE will throw it out.

The simple diameter of a baseball tends to confuse PFX ("center of the baseball" is not always recognized by the software).

I absolutely agree that blue has been told to expand the zone this year, to cut down on game times.

But that pitch is insane.

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That still pisses me off

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Maddux and Glavine benefitted from liberal strike zones

Angel Hernandez bad