On Tuesday, Major League Baseball officially announced that they are going to make a change for the 2026 season. MLB will be adding an ABS Challenge System, which will see balls and strikes being ...

For some time now, an automated strike zone -- informally known as the "robo ump" -- has been used at the Triple-A level and on occasion at various other rungs of the minor leagues. Recently, MLB ...

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In recent years, we've seen MLB become more receptive to the technology at its disposal. The league expanded the replay challenge rules, added a pitch clock and introduced Statcast to elevate how fans ...

Thursday's Cactus League game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will be more than just the first spring training game of 2025. It'll also be a bit of baseball history: For the first ...

ATLANTA -- The ABS system was used for the first time in an MLB All-Star Game Tuesday and it worked beautifully, hopefully illustrating to any naysayers out there just how good this system is for the ...

Good news for those of you who loved ABS back in 2025 MLB spring training: it's back for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game! That's right, time for some "robot umps" again. If you're here, you might be ...

With MLB’s competition committee expected to approve the automated ball-strike challenge system on Tuesday, it’s a good time to explain both how ABS works and clear up some of its misconceptions.

Round Rock Express third baseman Dustin Harris tapped his head three times, and watched the big screen as a pitch replayed against the backdrop of a simulated strike zone. The automated ball-strike ...

1. Major League Baseball scored a big victory with the pitch clock in 2023. The league has another potential win on its hands with the automated ball-strike system (ABS). The challenge system is being ...