Major League Baseball is introducing the Automated Balls-Strikes challenge system (ABS system) next season after growing complaints about the way balls and strikes are called. It might be a year too ...

As we get set for a thrilling October with this year's MLB playoffs, I have bad news for those of you who appreciate the league's still-new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System. It was first ...

TORONTO — Two outs. Bases loaded. The game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the second. Lucas Giolito delivered his 2-2 pitch to George Springer up and away. Springer let it go. Strike three. Springer was ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants got a preview of the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, during Cactus League games this past spring. Starting next year, the system will be making its debut in the majors ...

On Tuesday, MLB announced that in 2026, the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System will be coming to the big leagues. The challenge system has been trialed in the minors for a few seasons now, ...

Early this week Major League Baseball’s Joint Competition Committee voted to implement the automated ball strike challenge system to the big leagues next season bringing in a new era for the league.

The New York Yankees have spent much of the 2025 season chasing October, but this week they found themselves debating a different kind of opponent: the strike zone itself. Major League Baseball has ...

MLB announced plans to implement the Automated Ball Strike (ABS) Challenge System on a full-time basis, beginning with the 2026 regular season. The rule change comes after a vote by the joint ...

As we enter the final week of the 2025 MLB regular season, the league has made a significant announcement, stating that it will implement an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System for the entirety of ...

The ABS system is coming to Major League Baseball in 2026. (Logan Gehman/Phillies Nation) PHILADELPHIA — The automated ball-strike challenge system is coming to Major League Baseball next regular ...

MLB Competition Committee's decided to implement the ABS Challenge System in 2026. The Yankees clinching a spot and the Guardians-Tigers game was a Skubal meltdown.