Electronic pitch calling?

PhatMack19

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Thoughts?

Broadcasters explain that all nine Vanderbilt players are wearing electronic wristbands showing what pitch the coach is calling from the dugout

It’s the first year this is legal in college baseball pic.twitter.com/AohbaLEGfs
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) February 20, 2022

https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/vanderbilt-electronic-wristband-signs-pitches-stealing-reaction-college-baseball-video?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NFLdraftmaverickTony&fbclid=IwAR1f6o26U_Idj7antD3cn3FSw1dCFsNN5P-UmGmV21K8KcKzBr0YLXqxgjk

SchizoAg

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11:15p, 2/20/22

Disappointed. I thought this was about getting rid of home plate umpires.

BQ_90

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11:16p, 2/20/22

Wtf is up with that purple glove

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12:29a, 2/21/22

And what is up with the contrast on that centerfield camera? I'd hate to try and watch a whole game like that

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6:28a, 2/21/22

Interesting… we need to get their signal

powerbelly

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6:49a, 2/21/22

The traditionalist in me doesn't like it, but I understand they are trying to speed up games.

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6:49a, 2/21/22

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In reply to powerbelly • 6:51a, 2/21/22

If it works it will be coming to mlb soon, mlb does not need another sign stealing incident

powerbelly

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In reply to Sq 17 • 6:52a, 2/21/22

Sq 17 said:
If it works it will be coming to mlb soon, mlb does not need another sign stealing incident

Non-electronic sign stealing is part of baseball IMO.

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8:17a, 2/21/22

Can you put little messages on it or does it only show pitches?
What do you do when it inevitably goes down? Someone forgot to charge the battery? WiFi dies? Whatever. The guys still would need to know manual signs.

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2:27p, 2/21/22

How long until someone hacks it or figures out how to intercept the information?

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In reply to SchizoAg • 2:40p, 2/21/22

SchizoAg said:
Disappointed. I thought this was about getting rid of home plate umpires.

If you go with an electronic device to call strikes, will you still allow a plate umpire to call fair/foul and safe/out at the plate?

SchizoAg

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In reply to PhatMack19 • 3:10p, 2/21/22

PhatMack19 said:
Thoughts?

Broadcasters explain that all nine Vanderbilt players are wearing electronic wristbands showing what pitch the coach is calling from the dugout

It’s the first year this is legal in college baseball pic.twitter.com/AohbaLEGfs
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) February 20, 2022

https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/vanderbilt-electronic-wristband-signs-pitches-stealing-reaction-college-baseball-video?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NFLdraftmaverickTony&fbclid=IwAR1f6o26U_Idj7antD3cn3FSw1dCFsNN5P-UmGmV21K8KcKzBr0YLXqxgjk

Shouldn't be hard to jam the signals for this. Any EE majors looking for a semester project?

SchizoAg

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In reply to ABATTBQ87 • 3:14p, 2/21/22

ABATTBQ87 said:
SchizoAg said:
Disappointed. I thought this was about getting rid of home plate umpires.
If you go with an electronic device to call strikes, will you still allow a plate umpire to call fair/foul and safe/out at the plate?

Fair/foul should be easy enough to computerize, but we may need to keep the humans around for calling safe/out. At least until AI gets more sophisticated.

WhipLaLa

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5:18p, 2/21/22

How long until the college baseball equivalent of Lane Kiffin comes along and finds a way to automate play calls using analytics? Will we even know if they do? Or if they already have? This seems like a step in that direction to me. Not sure if I have strong opinions that I can defend yet, but my gut says no thanks.