The new computerized system is being tested during spring training, leading to a series of challenges from players who don’t ...

What to know about robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges at 2025 MLB spring training Cactus League, ...

This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment with ABS, the ...

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition ...

If there’s one thing baseball fans are averse to, it’s change. Over the MLB’s 149-year history, alterations to the game’s ...

Here is what every big leaguer needs to know about ABS, according to players and managers who have experience with it in the ...

The Automated Ball-Strike system, or ABS system, which was tested at the Triple-A level during the 2023 and '24 seasons, is ...

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.

Though that was once largely considered out of the bounds of possibility, MLB games officiated by so-called “robot umpires” are now closer to reality than ever before. Starting this week ...

The umpire then announces the updated count. MLB estimates the process averages ... and expanded to all Triple-A stadiums in 2023, the robot alone for the first three games of each series and ...