which gives game credit for anyone completing the training. Instructors include current Major League Baseball umpire Ben May, as well as umps who have worked varying levels of Little League World ...

The Detroit Tigers will be part of an MLB experiment using robot umpires during spring training games at Joker Marchant Stadium. The automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system uses cameras to ...

I bring all of this up because in addition to the new rules in baseball, like the pitch clock, the ghost runner, and extra innings, now, comes another wrinkle, the AI umpire. In some spring training ...

Spring training presents players with an opportunity to work on aspects of their game that they otherwise wouldn't have time for in the regular season. After all, everyone wants to be sharp when ...

who was the last woman before Pawol to umpire a major-league spring training game in 2007. David Lennon is an award-winning columnist, a voter for baseball's Hall of Fame and has covered six no ...