Are We Headed Towards A Fully Automated Strike Zone?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you're looking for Pistons conversation, Odyssey.com rewind. |
| 0:03.9 | We also had kind of a potpourri of Lions News out of the combine and Brand Holmes talking. |
| 0:09.7 | Odyssey.com rewind as well. |
| 0:11.1 | I wanted to bring up something, Rico, that I don't know anyone who doesn't like this, |
| 0:16.8 | but it's something Kenny brought up. |
| 0:19.2 | And I think it's something people have to be ready for. |
| 0:22.1 | But I wonder how it'll play out. |
| 0:25.1 | It is Major League Baseball's new ABS system, i.e. umpire accountability, reviewing of balls and strikes. |
| 0:33.8 | Now, I'll give you an example in a spring training game earlier. |
| 0:39.3 | It was Red Sox and Pirates. |
| 0:42.3 | They are six outs into this game, and the home plate umpire has shown his ass three times. |
| 0:48.8 | And ABS called him out on it all three times, on an automatic review once on a player challenge now |
| 0:56.1 | i want to say this because i know it's i'm i'm unfair to umpires i know this i'm guilty hi my name is |
| 1:01.8 | mike i'm unfair to um you hate umpires i do uh because i i think they're pretty terrible at |
| 1:07.7 | their job uh but do you know what's considered a bad miss? |
| 1:13.4 | Because they've done this in the minor leagues the last two years. |
| 1:16.1 | What is considered like a personal foul, ball or strike miss from a distant standpoint? |
| 1:23.4 | Just to show you how tough this is. |
| 1:26.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:27.5 | Two inches. |
| 1:29.0 | Wow. |
| 1:29.8 | That's considered anything. |
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