The game of baseball seems to be trending toward a new era that includes robot umpires. Robot umps are being tested during spring training and they have also been implemented in the minor leagues.

Texas Rangers pitcher Max Scherzer floated the idea of relegating umpires to the minor leagues in response to a recent wave of controversial calls. Talk about “robot umps” has been reignited ...

Get ready. Here come the robots. We’ve never lived in a world in which major-league spring training games had balls and strikes called by robot umps, otherwise known as the Automated Ball-Strike ...

It’s what has made Max Scherzer great. But when he visited Starkville this week to talk about robot umps and the fascinating spring training experiment with the ball-strike challenge system ...

Do you like the ABS challenge system? Do you prefer full robo-umps? Dayn Perry: I do like it, but I see it as a half-measure on the way to full ABS, which is what I really want. The human eye is ...

In a situation where a runner beats the throw but runs through the base – excluding first – the umpires can call the trailing runner out for abandoning the bag. These new rules are set while ...