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🗓️ 5 March 2019
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0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans, 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. |
0:38.5 | I think there will come a time where we will experiment with an automated strike zone. |
0:45.6 | Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball. Manfred spoke February 27th at the |
0:51.0 | Sport Techie State of the Industry Conference at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. |
0:55.8 | As the name suggests, sport techie deals with the intersection of sports and technology. |
1:01.3 | Back to Manfred on the automated strike zone. |
1:04.0 | The technology has gotten much, much better. |
1:06.8 | We are much closer to being able to do that. |
1:08.8 | But the way I always answer this question, |
1:11.4 | and it remains my answer is whether you have the technology or not, |
1:15.9 | I think this is one of those areas where you have to think |
1:22.4 | about the management of the game on the field. |
1:24.7 | The source of authority for umpires or one of the sources |
1:28.9 | of their authority is they call a ball or strike on every single playing in a baseball game. |
1:35.0 | And before you alter that fundamental dynamic, you really have to think through what the |
1:40.5 | consequences of that's going to be. Manfred also addressed the question of whether baseball analytics have gone too far. |
1:47.5 | I can't get enough baseball data, but I know some fans think that all the numbers and the |
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