The Disenchantment of Baseball

It was only a matter of time. Major League Baseball announced on September 23 that next year’s regular season would see the introduction of robot umpires for balls and strikes, a system already in use in the minor leagues. The robots won’t call every pitch (at least, not for now), but teams will be allowed a set number of challenges to umpires’ calls per game, similar to the system now used for plays on the field.