How MLB created a so-called robo-ump system that uses cameras and computers to call balls and strikes and how players are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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