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With Umpires Opting Out of the MLB Restart, is Now the Time for the Robots?The robots will eventually come to Major League Baseball. But maybe we should start to consider them immediately....

Umpire Rob Drake Makes Compelling Case For Umpire Robo DrakeThe way the robo-umpire experiment down in the Atlantic League is configured, it should not especially threaten the jobs of human umpires, who are still tasked with communicating balls and strikes and acting as a failsafe against computer glitches. That’s good news for all human umpires, but perhaps...

The Robot Umpire Is Moving Up In The WorldThe Atlantic League announced Tuesday that their experiment with an automated strike zone will continue for the remainder of the season, starting Thursday night. The system mostly worked; players and managers were happy with it; even the umpire who gave it its inaugural run at the Atlantic League Al...

Don Mattingly Is Ready For Robot Umpires

Marlins manager Don Mattingly watched his team get very nearly no-hit by electrifying Padres ace Chris Paddack Wednesday night, in what would’ve been the first no-hitter in Padres history. Paddack gave up his first hit, a solo dinger to Starlin Castro, in the bottom of the eighth inning, and eventua...