Are robot umpires ready for their MLB debut? Not so fast (theathletic.com)

Now that hundreds of minor-league players, managers and coaches have spent a season living on Planet Robo-Ump… they’ve decided that they don’t want to live on that planet. Oh, they still want The Big Calls to be 100 percent correct. They definitely don’t want games decided on calls like this. But do they want every pitch to be called by non-humans, strictly by the rulebook strike zone, in, say, a 17-2 game? Or when it’s the eighth inning and ominous dark clouds are gathering? No, they do not! They almost unanimously prefer a challenge system, in which (theoretically) only The Big Mistakes are addressed with technology.

Worth a read from Jayson Stark. Seems that baseball players want the technology they want when they want it, and how they want it. And only then.

Shocker, right?

Still, something to watch.