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Gotta love baseball and the atrocious ass umpires. What's even better is that there is a clear and simple fix that could very easily eliminate these issues, but MLB wants to drag their feet.
Having strikes and balls called by an automated system would increase the fairness of the game significantly. That's not even the best thing that would come from an ABS. The best thing would be the end of the stupid ass pitch framing conversation.
Pitch framing is a bunk ass stat that has no real way of being calculated and just tanks Salvador Perez's fWAR and defensive ranking. The guy who has been one of the best at throwing out base runners has career defense ranking of -9.2 and has had a negative defense ranking in 7 of his 12 seasons according to fangraphs.
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