CLEVELAND, Ohio — In a surprising twist that baseball purists might never have predicted, many Major League Baseball umpires have gone from resisting automated strike zones to actively embracing them. The reason? They’re tired of being blamed for calls that television technology misleadingly portrays as mistakes.

On a recent episode of the Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast, former MLB umpire Dale Scott – who called nearly 4,000 regular-season games over a 32-year career – shared a fascinating insider’s perspective on how umpire sentiment about technology has dramatically shifted in recent years.

“In the last few years, I think most of the staff has gone from not quite sure, not really wanting to deal with that, to, you know what, let’s have at it,” Scott revealed. “Because with the on-scre

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