One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals' spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike ...

The game of baseball seems to be trending toward a new era that includes robot umpires. Robot umps are being tested during ...

The ABS challenge system is being used in Spring training and some remain unconvinced by the automated ball-strike experiment ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred talks with media at George M. Steinbrenner Field. / Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Major ...

The Phillies are short on right-handed-hitting outfielders. Could this be the year that Brandon Marsh finally gets a run of playing time against lefties? And is Taijuan Walker's resurgence for real?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days and now that includes Major League Baseball. The league is testing new robot umpires during spring training in the form of an ...

The ABS challenge system is being tested during spring training games in 2025 and could be a new rule in MLB when the 2026 ...

Baseball umpires have been calling balls and strikes since soon after the game was invented in the mid-19th century. Nearly 160 years later, those umpires will finally get some help –– at least during ...

Major League Baseball is currently testing a robot umpire system, allowing players to challenge balls and strikes during games. Federal judge rules Trump administration has to pay millions in ...

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.

Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.