MLB Umpire and Everyone Else Totally Forgot the Count On Strangest Walk of Season
The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're ...
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MLB: The Unbelievable Number of Missed Calls by Umpires on Opening Day 2025
The Opening Day of the MLB 2025 arrived with all the excitement we anticipated, but also with an unpleasant surprise: the ...
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Is This the Last Season Baseball Umpires Really Matter?
Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.
MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
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MLB teams won 52.2% of ABS challenges during robot umpire test
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.
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Robot umpires take to the field for baseball's spring training | The Excerpt
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 ...