DUNEDIN, Fla. — He’s a solver of problems. Always has been. It’s what makes great pitchers great. It’s what has made Max Scherzer great.
But when he visited Starkville this week to talk about robot umps and the fascinating spring training experiment with the ball-strike challenge system (plus lots more), the future Hall of Famer asked a pointed question for everyone in baseball to think about:
“What problem are we really solving?
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“Think about the postseason last year,” Scherzer told me and Doug Glanville on the latest Starkville edition of The Athletic’s Windup podcast. “Are we really talking about (any controversies that) happened with the home plate umpires and strikes and balls?
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