Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Athletics outfielder Seth Brown made a strange bit of MLB history in Friday's win over the Seattle Mariners -- thanks to an ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

To me, it’s the pinnacle of this career,” Carapazza said on being promoted to crew chief. “To be able to go out and lead ...

I need a shot. Give me my chance,’ ’’ head groundskeeper Roger Bossard said. “Then after about an hour of work, I got ...

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

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On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect ...