ABS is MLB’s name for an automated strike zone — also known as robot umps. In a full ABS game, there will be a human umpire ...

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

There are no immediate plans to introduce the system in regular-season games yet. Questions remain about how large a role it ...

There are no immediate plans to introduce the system in regular-season games yet. Questions remain about how large a role it ...

Tampa Bay Rays catcher Ben Rortvedt tried to pull a fast one on MLB's new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system on ...

Starting Thursday at Camelback Ranch, where the Dodgers and Cubs will open Cactus League play, the ABS challenge system will ...

This spring training will introduce a new element to the action: for the first time, MLB will employ the automated ...

MLB is weighing options to dramatically reduce or remove the ubiquitous broadcast strike-zone box as part of bringing the ...

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Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever ...

Diaz’s inability to steal strikes and Paredes’ perpetual victimization by poor umpiring would, at the very least, be ...

During exhibition play, MLB will be testing its new ABS challenge system in ballparks, including the spring training homes of ...