The initial news we heard last week was eye-opening: that the Atlanta Braves and their 29 sister clubs were going to be subjected to live tests of the electronic umpire system this Spring.
With news bits and additional fallout about the Astros cheating scandal continuing to drip out like a leaky faucet, this news may have flown just a bit under the radar, but the initial reports seemed to indicate that balls and strikes in Grapefruit and Cactus League play would be adjudicated by cameras and electronic means.
We talked about this on the latest TomahawkTake podcast.