After challenges during a live batting practice resulted in multiple strikes being overturned to balls, San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish, through his interpreter, became one of the first players to express his distaste for the system. On the flip side, fellow starting pitcher Corbin Burnes said he thought it was " great ."

Replay technology has been part of Major League Baseball for over 15 years ago now, but the league’s ball-strike challenge experiment is a step too far for one future Hall of Famer. Max Scherzer, making his Blue Jays spring training debut,

The 40-year-old former Tigers star surrendered a leadoff triple to Victor Scott II starting the game but settled down. He retired his final six batters, striking out four with a fastball at 92-93 mph. Scherzer threw 20 of 34 pitches for strikes.