One of several potential conditions for MLB’s restart is that home plate umpires be replaced by an electronic strike zone, which should probably happen anyway. Rather than simply trying to eliminate egregious human error, our current reality of social distancing dictates that an umpire breathing down a catcher’s neck might not be in the best interest of public health.
Nor would filling the stands with fans, which is why the Rakuten Monkeys of Taiwan’s CPBL have opted for robot mannequin fans. Yes, you read that right.
So it’s basically Westworld, just confined to baseball and way less illicit/explicit.