During Tuesday's Cactus League game between the Angels and Rangers, outfielder Wyatt Langford hit a slow, bouncing grounder ...

Quinn Wolcott knows what we're talking about. He was the first base ump in Tuesday's Angels - Rangers game and he had one of ...

Major League Baseball is introducing an Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) robot program in spring training, allowing teams the ...

Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean ...

A future Hall of Fame pitcher admits the incursion of legalized gambling in baseball was a factor in the players' decision to ...

It's only a matter of time until the robot umpires are implemented on a day-to-day basis in MLB. With there being tons of fan ...

Major League Baseball is experimenting with the ABS challenge system during spring training in 2025, but there are currently ...

It didn't take long for the ABS system to prove human umpires wrong during MLB's first spring training game of 2025. What if I told you there was once a day when human umpires ruled all?

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in ...

NEW YORK — Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez, and Alex MacKay were hired Friday as fulltime major league umpires, and Major League Baseball said Dan Merzel and Nate Tomlinson had been added to the ...

If they challenge, the pitch graphic appears on the scoreboard and broadcast, and the umpire updates the count. The MLB says this takes about 17 seconds. The MLB has been testing ABS challenges in ...