Baseball has always made room for human error. Umpires miss calls. Fans complain. Life goes on.
But this season, MLB is rolling out the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system — ABS — giving teams two challenges per game to contest ball-and-strike calls.
The idea is to reduce bad calls. The likely side effect is a whole new category of mistakes.
In this “Mistake of the Week,” Mark Graban looks at what happens when correcting human error depends on another human decision — and what one anonymous coach predicted, vividly, about how this will play out.