Video review is the worst thing to ever happen to sports. They should just return to having human error involved, acknowledged, and part of the lore of sport. I hate it. If you can't review everything, review nothing.
That being said, it will make the accomplishments of the old position players even more revered.
Once the body of work is established however, you'll probably see that many of the "strike outs" were specious. Pete Rose started like 3,500 games in his career. Four at-bats per game will put him up around 14,000 plate appearances. He struck out 1100 times and had 1500 walks. Of those 2600 plate appearances he probably had something close to 6 pitches per at at bat making for 15,000 pitches he faced in those 2600 plate appearances. If the data shows that 2% of the strikes were balls, that is 300 pitches. That'd probably reduce his strike out totals by 100 over his long career. So that would likely mean more walks, fewer at-bats, and a higher batting average. But who knows what it would mean to his hit total? If a pitcher is "up" 1-2 to a hitter and should be 2-1 or especially 3-0... he has to throw the ball over the plate. Needless to say that he would have have more hits than he wound up with.
