It's here . . . ABS for your youth games

[The Man in Blue]

https://ua.musco.cloud/landing?fieldId=yd7omf

https://ua.musco.cloud/quick-guide?fieldId=yd7omf

 

Direct quote from their own video: "Umpire assist is designed to assist -- NOT REPLACE the human umpire working the game. It's a tool for making consistent ball and strike calls so games can be played with a single on field umpire."

Umm . . . tell me you are lying without telling me you are lying.

[Jonump]

still in pilot/beta, certainly still creaky (I love the "calibrate every few innings") and definitely too expensive and unwieldly for the vast majority of youth fields and orgs...at the moment. 

reddit thread on someone seeing it: 

 

Give it 4 or 5 years and probably becomes pretty common, yes? 

"I'm sure that train on the horizon won't bother us much"--the american buffalo

I'm not sure how interested I will be in standing behind a plate confirming calls. Bases would still be fun but the whole point is to reduce the need so far fewer 2 man games. 

 

[BLWizzRanger]

8 hours ago, The Man in Blue said:

https://ua.musco.cloud/landing?fieldId=yd7omf

https://ua.musco.cloud/quick-guide?fieldId=yd7omf

 

Direct quote from their own video: "Umpire assist is designed to assist -- NOT REPLACE the human umpire working the game. It's a tool for making consistent ball and strike calls so games can be played with a single on field umpire."

Umm . . . tell me you are lying without telling me you are lying.

Four words that will become widely used together in four years.

Robots in the infield.
 

You've seen it here first.

[boyinr]

It’s highly likely that I can call an ABS zone a lot easier than they can pitch to  one. Be very careful about what you want.  You might just get it.

[dumbdumb]

great for 1 man crew, by working behind mound (just like mcclelland did one year in STraining), and also calling bases from behind the mound.

[The Man in Blue]

7 minutes ago, dumbdumb said:

great for 1 man crew, by working behind mound (just like mcclelland did one year in STraining), and also calling bases from behind the mound.

That absolutely is not what it is for, @dumbdumb . . . they said so in their PR materials:

"Umpire assist is designed to assist -- NOT REPLACE the human umpire working the game. It's a tool for making consistent ball and strike calls so games can be played with a single on field umpire."

[dumbdumb]

8 hours ago, The Man in Blue said:

That absolutely is not what it is for, @dumbdumb . . . they said so in their PR materials:

"Umpire assist is designed to assist -- NOT REPLACE the human umpire working the game. It's a tool for making consistent ball and strike calls so games can be played with a single on field umpire."

sounds good as an interim system, until they get full abs like the sec just used, and using the 1 umpire (PU) only system.