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Guidas
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Robots Now, Please! Apr 24, 2018 7:32:25 GMT -5

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Post by Guidas on Apr 24, 2018 7:32:25 GMT -5

We’ve been observing this over the last several years, but if MLB really was serious about pace of play they’d unify the strike zone and only have Home plate umps for safe/out/fair/foul/balk and Frank Drebbin jokes: sports.yahoo.com/baseball-strikeout-era-better-worse-050031337.html

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Robots Now, Please! Apr 24, 2018 7:42:07 GMT -5

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Post by James Dunne on Apr 24, 2018 7:42:07 GMT -5

People striking out too much and the umpiring are two separate issues, and the pace of play has more to do with the former than the latter.

The conventional wisdom for a long time was also that human umpires rewarded pitchers who worked faster with an expanded zone. I have no idea if there has ever been evidence of that.