Bryce Harper acknowledged that a challenge system for balls and strikes -- which uses ABS and has reached Triple-A this season -- could work, but he has another idea to fix Major League Baseball\'s umpire problem.
\"I enjoy the human aspect of the game, I do, it just has to be done the right way and I don\'t know what that would be,\" Harper said.
\"But the one thing I think, if you\'re a really good umpire, I think you should get paid more and that you should umpire more than one game per week behind the plate. Even if we don\'t have the challenge system, if the better umpires are behind the plate all the time, I think it\'s better for baseball.\"
Umpires are graded by the league office, a division headed up by Joe Torre in his role as special assistant to the commissioner. Better grades mean more postseason assignments.