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Why This Vehement “Anti Replay” Fan Supports Robo Ball-Strike Umps

The apocalypse is nigh: robo umps are coming to AAA and not just to eat the flesh of your deadest prospects. They also plan to adjudicate balls and strikes by assigning an actual rectangle to the space over home plate, and you may or may not have a couple opportunities to challenge calls that appear to come from the defective “Robo Angel Hernandez 3” shipment.

Robo umps are a lot like MLB prospects: once they reach AAA you know they are but a step away from the big leagues. Is the jump from A to AAA harder for a robot than it is for a living and breathing athlete?