MLB's Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) is here. Learn more about the history of baseball's strike zone and the ...

At long last, player protest with ball or strike calls can be handled with something other than ineffectual arguing.

What if I told you that the strike zone written in the MLB rulebook isn't the strike zone that the ABS challenge system uses to determine a ball and a strike? Well, that'd be the truth. On Monday ...

PEORIA, Ariz. — Major League Baseball first defined a strike zone in the late 1880s, when the game shifted away from a batter’s ability to call for a “high,” “low” or “fair” pitch at the start of a ...

Another major change is coming to MLB. Just years after the ghost runner and pitch clock rules significantly changed the rhythm of baseball, shortening game length, the league is now addressing a ...

Three weeks into the 2026 MLB season, the introduction of theautomated ball-strike challenge systemhas been the talk of baseball. In the early days of the new ABS system, there have been nearly 1,000 ...

PHOENIX — Arizona Diamondbacks closer Paul Sewald knows that — in theory — Major League Baseball’s new Automated Ball-Strike system shouldn’t favor batters or pitchers. In practice, he thinks one side ...

Walks are up 7.3% as pitches in the strike zone dropped markedly, and the average time of games increased by 5 minutes ...