Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
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.
What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!
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 — 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. Major League Baseball ...
The Opening Day of the MLB 2025 arrived with all the excitement we anticipated, but also with an unpleasant surprise: the ...