It's official: MLB will be using the ABS challenge system throughout the entire 2026 season. Robot umpires - also called "automated balls and strikes" (ABS) - have been used in the minor leagues and ...

With the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system in line to be fully integrated in Major League games at the start of next season, it will mark the biggest rule change the sport has seen since ...

When Jen Pawol took the field as an MLB umpire at Atlanta’s Truist Park on Aug. 9, it made history. For the first time, a female umpire worked a regular season MLB game. For the first time, the dream ...

The Wendelstedt Umpire School in Ormond Beach is ending its traditional four-week program after 50 years. Major League Baseball has created its own official evaluation system for training and ...

Gerrit Cole’s Tommy John surgery in March sidelined him, keeping him out of action well into next season—a significant blow to the Yankees. Meanwhile, one vocal figure on social media has become ...

Major League Baseball and its umpires have agreed to ratify a new five-year labour contract, ensuring further labour peace. Both parties announced the deal Wednesday. The previous five-year contract ...

Starting this season, Major League Baseball umpires will use a microphone to announce decisions made by the replay booth, the league announced Friday. MLB says that training has been held in Arizona ...

Richie Phillips, the confrontational former head of the major league umpires union and NBA referees union, died last Friday. He was 72. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Phillips died of cardiac ...