Technology aiding ball and strike calls in Major League Baseball may not be a matter of if, but when. “I know in the future it’s coming,” Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña said. “Something with the automatic strike zone is going to come.

ESPN and Major League Baseball are splitting up after a 35-year association with the broadcaster announcing coverage of MLB

The calculus behind ESPN’s decision to walk away from its longstanding partnership with Major League Baseball may have been a bit knottier than a simple cost-benefit analysis would otherwise suggest—nothing’s ever simple when so many terminal zeroes are involved—but you don’t need an advanced economics degree to intuit that Disney’s departure was inevitable.