You mean the umps don't make any call at all, they just go straight to the technology? I'd be cool with that, though I suspect the union would view that as a path towards eliminating umpires altogether.
Guys like Cuzzi, Hernandez, and Diaz will constantly be embarrassed. Their incompetence will be even easy to quantify. The umpires union doesn't want that.
Exactly. His highs this year have been so high that it's more noticeable when he has games like the last few.
However, if "Mike Trout's performance at the plate" is in your top 50 concerns for the 2019 Angels, I don't know what to tell you.
The thing I love about watching him is when he gives up a homer like just now - or multiple runs in an inning like he did against the Dodgers a couple of weeks ago - he doesn't panic, he doesn't melt down... he just bears down and goes back to work. Maturity beyond his years.
I was at a bar in New Orleans a couple of years ago where the DJ had the customers play a game where they clinched a shot glass with their butt cheeks and if they walked the length of the bar without dropping the glass, they got a free drink. The way those contestants moved is exactly how Albert runs.
I'd also be curious which hitter strikes out looking the most with a full count. I remember Trout doing it four times at St. Louis, so maybe it's recency bias, but this season he sure seems to stare at a lot of strikes on full counts.