Every season, it seems like umpiring across Major League Baseball is getting worse. And yet, the powers at be have no plans to do anything about it in the near future.
While an automated strike zone is getting tested at various levels of the minor leagues, it was not included among the possible rule changes in the new CBA. On top of that, we learned that Major League umpires are evaluated on such a lenient scale that they even have Angel Hernandez scoring a 96 percent.
But something really has to change because a sequence like Wednesday’s Marcel Ozuna at-bat simply cannot happen.
