SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Baseball purists beware! Radical change is coming to the independent Atlantic League and it could someday spread to the majors.
In case you missed it — and if you’re a real baseball fan there’s no way you could have — the experiment in the Atlantic League is drastic. Major League Baseball, which has partnered with ALPB, plans to study the results and consider what they could mean for the future.
In a nutshell, the Atlantic League will implement the following this summer:
— The home plate umpire will be assisted in calling balls and strikes by a TrackMan radar tracking system.