Professionals and cons of MLB's ABS problem system: New layer of drama has been added

We’re lower than per week into Main League Baseball’s new ABS problem system for balls and strikes, and it’s already having a major affect on video games, the best way they’re performed and the best way they’re watched. 

A extra scientific, automated system for calling balls and strikes has been one thing that many baseball followers (and a few gamers) have been calling for for years, and this is step one in getting nearer to a extra everlasting resolution for it. 

Within the short-term, there are some fast execs and cons to the system.

Let’s discuss a few of them. 

Professional: New layer of drama

It is a very subjective factor, however it’s onerous to disclaim the drama and pleasure these challenges have dropped at video games.

Possibly as we get used to it and it turns into extra regular, it’s going to put on off. Possibly because the video games develop into extra necessary within the warmth of a pennant race and the playoffs, it’s going to develop into better.

However so far as March baseball is worried, a few of these ABS moments have been super theater.

The response of the Cincinnati Reds crowd when Eugenio Suarez received back-to-back challenges was positively electrical.