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Should MLB’s automated ball-strike system have a built-in buffer zone?

Should MLB’s automated ball-strike system have a built-in buffer zone?

ATLANTA — Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark wondered Tuesday whether the automated ball-strike system would do well to provide a little grace, a half-inch or so, so that the system isn’t used to overturn calls that are wrong by a razor-thin margin. “Does there need to be some type of buffer-zone consideration?” Clark asked. “We haven’t …

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