Max Scherzer has many more thoughts on robot umps: ‘What problem are we really solving?’

DUNEDIN, Fla. — He’s a solver of problems. “Think about the postseason last year,” Scherzer told me and Doug Glanville on the latest Starkville edition of The Athletic’s Windup podcast. So what problem are we really solving?” That’s a question Scherzer would be asking even if he hadn’t gotten mixed up in a couple of amusing, challenge-related capers in his first two starts since joining his new team, the Toronto Blue Jays. “If you said, ‘Do we like the challenge system versus the status quo?’ Yes,” Scherzer said. If we’re going to use a challenge system to “correct” those pitches, he said, “we’re going to change our human behavior, because now we’ve changed how we call balls and strikes.