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

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

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 ...

The batter, pitcher or catcher simply tap their helmet or cap to challenge — but they only have two seconds. If they ...

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during MLB spring training exhibition games starting ...

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

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 Detroit Tigers are one of 13 teams using the automated ball-strike challenge system in spring training. It's about time we use robot umpires.

Robot umpires have arrived in the big leagues, at least in exhibition games. The Cubs and World Series champion Dodgers ...

The umpire then announces the updated count ... A parks in 2022 and expanded to all Triple-A stadiums in 2023, the robot alone for the first three games of each series and a human with a challenge ...

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.