Umpires have been missing calls for over a century, so naturally, baseball has decided to replace them with robots. Welcome to the future, where your favorite pastime is ruled by cold, unfeeling AI. But don’t worry, tradition lives on—fans will still find a way to scream at an algorithm like it’s a human who just robbed their team of a playoff spot. Can robo-umps really make baseball fairer, or are they just another way for technology to ruin a good argument?
When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
