Dodgers “Do not hate the idea of” the ball/automatic strike system in MLB

Phoenix – Before the first match at the main league of the baseball to include an automatic challenge to review balls and strikes, the director of Dodgers Dave Roberts had only one base.

“I told Monsey not to challenge” it is the biggest reason we have not agreed with the strike. So I said, “Save your challenges.”

In the 12-4 spring training loss in Dodgers to Chicago Al-Ashbar on Thursday in Ranch Camelback, Montsi is committed.

Unfortunately for him, he did not do his counterpart.

At the bottom of the first half, in the number 0 and 1 against the code of the right of the cubs, Monsey took a ball called on the knees and above the inner corner of the plate.

“When I crossed that ball, I thought it was a blow immediately,” Monsey said.

And so did Pothet. For the first time, there was something that he could do about it.

After watching the home panel, Tony Randazzo rules the ball, and soon took his head to refer to a challenge, which leads to an immediate review using the MLB automatic multiplication system (or ABS, in short). On the results panel, the stadium’s digital show suddenly appeared, one depends on data from the stadium -installed falconer tracking system. After that, like the TRACER Ball technology used to review points in professional tennis, the animation showed that the Potheet stadium has already cut off the angle of the strike area.

The number 1 and 1 was changed to 0 and 2. Monsi, who struck looking at a similar throw in three stadiums at a later time, was left to be the victim of the moment of a teacher in the history of baseball rules.

After the match, Monsi narrated: “I look there while draining his head,” and I went, “Well, I will be the first.” “

Currently, the MLB use of ABS is still in an exploratory stage.

There are no instant plans, or a long -term schedule, to introduce the system in the normal season games so far. Questions remain about the accuracy of technology, and how much it should have in the games that are already calculated.

“I am curious to find out how it is running,” said Roberts before the opening match of the Al -Saba League on Thursday. “You did not make a decision on whether or not you are a fan.”

However, after trying the ABS idea at different levels of small league championships over the past half decade, MLB decided to give it experimental in the spring training this year, and to install the Hawk -Eye technology in Select Cactus and GrapeFruit Legue Ballparks – among them the Camelback Ranch farm facility from Dodgers – in his most ambitious effort So far to make balls and strikes reviewable.

“It’s interesting,” Monsey said. “I don’t hate the idea of ​​that. I think they will admit that they will fully admit yet. But it is a great idea and I love it. It’s just a different thing.”

In short, here are the rules:

• Plots, uses and battlefields can lead to a review on any stadium once clicked on their head after the ball/strike call. No one else, including even managers, can submit an application for a challenge.
• Each team will get at least two challenges for each game, and will retain any challenges successfully vetoed (for example, the Cubs still have two remaining challenges after changing PotEet ball to Muncy to a strike on Thursday).
• The challenges should be indicated immediately after the stadium. If the ruling believes that a jug, formulation, or a strike is delayed in calling a challenge to search for a sign of the hideout, for example, their request will not be granted.

“It does not slow down the game at all,” Monsey said. “Stir quickly.”

In fact, during her experience in the Microscopic League Championships, MLB found that every challenge added only 17 seconds from the time of the game. On Thursday, Monsey joked that the longest part of the process is Randazzo in an attempt to get a microphone of his stadium for operation in order to announce the Potheet challenge for the crowd.

“I think it’s actually a good system,” said Roberts after the match. “Especially in a big place, you want to get the call properly.”

If (or most likely, when) the system is integrated into the normal season games, it is likely that it attracts more attractive views in a sport that relied on the human rulers of balls and strikes for almost completely.

Dependence on the technique of tracking the ball will not only change a major change, but the games will be implanted with a new strategic dynamic-which can go beyond merely discovering the optimal times to challenge the call.

“The jugs may eventually be able to take advantage of some things, or the stadiums that are not usually called [for strikes now]“Veteran football player Michael Confero.” But I think this is why we are doing it in the spring. So I am excited to see how things will go. “

On the contrary, the strikers can also benefit, since the ABS hunger area will not differ in the game game in the way the human rulers operate alternating; Especially in an era in which the fishermen are taught to frame all the stadium.

“When you really get some good fishermen there – like the will [Smith] and [Austin] Barnes, men who can really stick to a good stadium and make him very similar to a blow-you want to challenge it, but it is a ball, “right Bobby Miller, who suffered from the absolute value during a multiple period in Triple-A last year, said before Thursday’s match ( When he took a return from the head that fell in the concussion protocol).

“I am not a great admirer for him. Miller added,” I always loved communication and strikes. “But the ball is a ball and the strike is a blow. So it is what it is. “

According to Smith, Dodgers did not spend much time discussing ABS’s strategic elements in the spring camp.

“I am sure that we will reach a strategy for how we use it,” he said. “We will take a look at the front office to what is logical in their minds, what is logical in the mind of the hit, what is logical in the mind of the mask. We will discover that. But we are not very concerned about it now.”

Meanwhile, Monsey was treated for some good missile after the strike with the help of ABS on Thursday-where the short end of a system came out, in his appearance at the MLB level, his manager had not jokingly used it.

“Of course, I get the first one after all these men joking about this topic. Monsi said laughing.” When I came back, Freddy [Freeman] He was waiting for me, just laughing at my face. Go the shape.