Mariners Sunday mailbag: Forget robots to handle balls and strikes. Get better umpires.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Similar to Dee Gordon saying the Mariners needed that six-game losing streak to refocus on their deficiencies , the weekly mailbag needed that two-week stretch of a loaner laptop to remember what’s important and what makes this mailbag successful – snarky or rhetorical questions that are met with answers of equal or greater snark or answers that leave you with more questions.

As always, these are real questions from the mixed bag of personalities otherwise known as my Twitter followers:

david donald chu @deadshot22

Are you in favor of an Automated/Electronic Strike Zone to replace manual umpires calling the pitches? They will still be there to handle other things. But not for…