With respect to the robot umps, I guess Kirk becomes less desirable in relation to pitch framing. Perhaps when teams exhaust their checks in a game that skill is useful but generally speaking it may not help our own pitchers if an ump calls a ball and the pitcher thinks it's a strike and challenges based on Kirk's positioning. So that strategic advantage may be gone. Robot umps will be good though. Way too many bad calls this year affecting both sides.
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