Cast, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman explain the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System with help from MLB catcher Garrett ...

MLB's Automated Ball-Strike challenge system (ABS) is being implemented this spring and will stick around during the 2026 season, and some of the league's biggest stars are being affected in different ...

While MLB teams are limited to challenging two pitch calls per nine-inning game, the introduction of Automated Ball-Strike ...

Major League Baseball is to debut a Hawk-Eye-powered system that allows teams to challenge umpires’ ball-strike decision. A new challenge system is to be introduced to Major League Baseball next ...

The technology for tracking balls and strikes and challenging the human umpires behind home plate is making its Major League ...

Just over half the ball/strike challenges were successful on the first day of spring training games Friday as Major League ...

The Joint Competition Committee last September voted to bring the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile, to the big leagues in 2026 following several years of ...

In a stunning and controversial move, Major League Baseball announced last week that game broadcasts will no longer display ...

Davis Schneider and Alejandro Kirk will have the green light, George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. probably have a yellow.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Do you miss those robots yet? We’ve spent the past five weeks watching them pop out of hiding, every time a catcher, hitter or pitcher tapped his head to ask his favorite robot umps ...

JUPITER, Fla. – One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike system (ABS), unofficially known by some as robot umpires.

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor ...