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If MLB instituted an electronic strike zone that went strictly by the book, both batters and pitchers would hate it. I also suspect that pitchers would quickly learn to exploit the "weaknesses" of the system, figuring out where the system calls strikes most unlike the way the human umps called them (probably at the top of the zone on the corners).
If the league kept adjusting the machine until it got pretty close to what everyone was used to, it might work, but I'd hate to see it.
Remember, the machine would call a ball on an 0-2 pitch belt high and half a millimeter outside, even to a pitcher who was standing with the bat on his shoulder hoping to strike out and get back to the bench.
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