Ready or not, here comes baseball’s first non-human defined strike zone

Gerry Davis was speaking to a crowd of baseball fans at the Society for American Baseball Research’s annual convention in San Diego last Saturday when he let something slip.
Davis was describing a tough day at work. The night before, he was the home plate umpire in a game between the Padres and Cardinals. Vic Carapazza was the first base umpire. The Padres challenged two of Carapazza’s calls: a safe/out call on a grounder in the second inning, and a pickoff attempt in the third. Both