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A small, but notable moment in baseball history occurred this week. In a US minor-league game between the San Rafael Pacifics and Vallejo Admirals, the home plate umpire did not call balls and strikes. Instead, a computerized video system was used to make the determinations, which were relayed by the game's announcer to the crowd cheering on the home team—and checking out the system's performance—at Albert Park in San Rafael, California.
The system, Pitchf/x from Chicago-based Sportvision, isn't new to baseball. It already provides data for evaluating players and umpires, and it helps TV viewers see where a pitch lands relative to the strike zone. But on July 28 it was used to make actual calls, marking the first time that's happened in professional baseball.
Maybe if Major League Baseball can save money on umpires they can lower ticket prices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @03:39PM
Umpires make so little compared to the players that eliminating them entirely won't affect ticket price at all. You're thinking just like Republicans, claiming the reason they want to eliminate funding to NASA and NIH and such is to "balance the budget", completely ignoring the area that costs more than every publicly-funded service and department put together - the military.