Is baseball ready for robo-umps? A’s, Giants weigh in on proposed system
The Oakland A’s will play at Salt River Stadium on Sunday, where a technological umpiring system will be at work in the background as MLB decides how to potentially implement it at the big-league level. Athletics pitcher Daniel Gossett and outfielder Greg Deichmann and San Francisco Giants catcher Joey Bart have first-hand experience with the ‘robo-ump’ system from the Arizona Fall League and weigh in.