Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever since. Strike-zone judgment has been the subject of some untold number of verbal (and,

Though Langford wasn’t aware of the experiment when he arrived at camp, the news was an immediate pick-me-up. Langford had exposure to the ABS system for a handful of Triple-A games in 2023 and on a rehab assignment last year. He said he went 2-for-3 on challenges in 2023.