JohnF posted: …Stats: You asked a question, I answered. You may not agree with my answer, but your question, subtle or not, didn't limit a response to whether in one game where batters weren't swinging at strikes that a machine would have called. Who cares? It happens - if the batters adjust, then great for them that they recognized. Bad for us as fans to have to sit through that... BTW: I've umpired in a game where a ball thrown right down the middle and I uttered "ball" - you see my brain was somehow convinced on an 0-2 count that there'd be a pitch off the plate (usually an inside FB or curve) like he had thrown to every one of the 10 or so batters before. Nope on this one - as the kids call it a di**shot. The catcher had a good laugh as I looked at the better and said "you better swing at the next one no matter where it is" (it was fall ball, everyone got a chuckle). …
The only thing I didn’t like about your response was that like so many others you lumped in calling pitches not swung at with IR, after I tried very hard to say any changes to the flow of the game should be kept to an absolute minimum.
Just out of curiosity, did you watch that Mil game where Pitch F/X called pitches not swung at?