The new computerized system is being tested during spring training, leading to a series of challenges from players who don’t ...
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, ...
A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during MLB spring training exhibition games starting ...
The batter, pitcher or catcher simply tap their helmet or cap to challenge — but they only have two seconds. If they ...
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 ...
Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each original ... to all Triple-A stadiums in 2023, the robot alone for the first three games of each ...
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.
Robot umpires have arrived in the big leagues, at least in exhibition games. The Cubs and World Series champion Dodgers ...