in Yanxiz The camp on Wednesday, Louis Jill Stadium Harun judge The tail below the area directly. A generation. Believing that the bottom of the painting was caught, he put his hand on his hat. The players stared at the video board, which revealed that the stadium had already missed 1.8 inches. After less than 30 seconds, the bats continued.
This was a game challenge in playing.
Although NFL lovers dream about the day when an electronic system can be determined that can be determined with more accurate accuracy, the MLB is in the process of discovering its own way to try to remove the human error on the balls and strikes. Robot rulers did not reach The main baseball league However, a copy of the automatic strike area will be tested this spring.
Starting Thursday at the Camelback farm, where Evading and Cubs The game will open in the cactus, the ABS Challenge System will begin. The system will be in place in 13 stadiums and in more than 60 % of the spring training games throughout Arizona and Florida. The preparation represents a compromise between humans and complete ABS, allowing rulers to determine the majority of balls and damage while providing the ability to fix the most terrible calls.
“We have heard good things about it, and I heard bad things about it,” DiamondBacks witty Corbin Burns He said Thursday. “At the level of the big league, we want to see how things work and get a few good weeks to see if something will be possible in the future, but we will see how things are going. It is still a technique, so they still have the mistakes that they will have to discover.” .
In this spring, you will get two challenges for each game and you will lose a challenge only if it does not work. Only a mixture, jug or hunter can challenge a call, which they will refer to by clicking on their head. They should do this immediately after the stadium without the help of the manager or the players in the hideout. The Hawk-Eye technology will then be displayed on the video panel, showing whether the stadium is a blow or not. On average, the challenges at the Triple-A second level lasted to complete them.
The dimensions of the strike area will be determined according to the height of the mixture – the top of the area is 53.5 % of the player’s height, while the bottom of the area is 27 %. The heights of all players in the position in the camp were measured this spring.
The reason is that not in every spring stadium is that it is not all equipped for technology. In the aloe vera Association, the ABS challenge will be used in Rangers Camelback (Dodgers/White Sox), Rangers/Royals, Pearl Sports Complex (Marines/Padres), Goodyear Ballpark (RDS) /The Guardians (DiamondBacks /Rockies). In the Grapefruit League, it will be in George M. Steiner Wield (Yanxiz), Clover Park, Baycare Ballpark (Phillies), TD Ballpark (Blue Jays), Leccom Park (Pirates), Publix Field (Tigers), Hammon Stadium (twin) and the role of Chevrolet Dillet Stadium (Marles/Cardinals).
The system will not enter into force during the 2025 MLB season, but if it is considered successful during the Cactus and GraphFruit League game, it can be implemented as soon as the year 2026.
MLB has already tried different versions of ABS in small league championships, but this spring is the first time that it will be tested at the big league level. However, adults of tasks in rehabilitation tasks have already obtained a copy of ABS. Guardians Stephen KuanWho started the beginning of rehabilitation and completely absolute value, among them.
In All-Star last year, KWAN said he believed the concept was a good idea but asked about the psychology of the player’s willingness to burn the challenge in a close call.
“I am not sure how to adapt this part,” said Kuan. “In a vacuum, it seems that it will be effective, but we will see.”
Dave Roberts, who will manage the first spring game with ABS technology, did not decide whether to like. He told his warrior to be keen to challenge low balls in the region, believing that these are often strikes when the hitting believed otherwise. He also smiled, and he conveyed what one of his warringnesss told before before the opening match of the Al -Saba League on Thursday.
“I said [Max] Monsey “Do not challenge, Roberts said it’s the biggest reason we have not agreed with the strike area, so you have said to save your challenges.”
The archers, often, are the most skeptical of technology, which have been tested in Triple-A in the past two years. This includes Burns, who used to study the historical strike area of the ruling behind the painting before each beginning.
“They are very good in adhering to their areas historically,” said Burns. “They make mistakes in the main plate, but if you look at a type of general strike area for 10 years in the Great League, these men are very good.”
For the three players who have been exposed to both ABS and the challenge system, the latter seems to be prevailing preference.
“It is currently not a little consistent”, Dodgers Pitcher Landon nak He said. “The stadium to the stadium, the same thing will not be calibrated. So, you will go to some places and you will be higher or less. You go to some places, and it has been actually moved more than one or two inch.”
KNACK also said in his experience, the area tends to be smaller than those he used to grow, and he often took the calls he usually received at the top of the area. As a jug that lives in the fast in the mid -1990s, driving and accuracy are particularly vital. The calls against him on the edges can start or break.
He referred to the average walking in Triple-A since the system began to use. In 2023, KNACK walked twice the number of fighters for each nine roles of what he did in Double-A in the same season. Last year, 4.1 professional fighters walked for every nine roles in Triple-A but only 2.3 in 15 large league games.
However, KNACK realizes the interest in technology and the desire to get the largest possible number of calls as possible. He believes that he is participating for the masses and may ultimately be positive for the game as soon as Kinks is placed, even if there is not yet.
“He is close,” said Knack. “It is not as if it is very far from where it should be, but it is still a little far away.”
Rawan Cavnerr He is a MLB writer for Fox Sports. La Dodgers, La Clippers and Dallas Cowboys have already been covered. Rawan was born at LSU University in California, and he grew up in Texas, then returned to the West Coast in 2014. Follow it on Twitter on Rowankavner.
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