Major League Baseball's umpires have never been under more public scrutiny than they are in in the modern era, and ...

The poll from Quinnipiac University, released June 27, found 60% of adults polled felt Rose should be in the Hall of Fame, ...

Despite the general success of the ABS challenge system in spring training this year, some players within Major League Baseball aren't on board for making it a part of real games. In a survey of ...

Home plate umpires have become increasingly unpopular as the looming possibility of robot umpires replacing them becomes ...

To be clear, it’s highly unlikely that robo-umps are actually coming — at least not in the way some players fear. What appears to be on its way is an ABS challenge system — as opposed to ABS ...

1970 — Jim Ray Hart of San Francisco hit for the cycle and became the first NL player in 59 years to drive in six runs in one inning as the Giants beat Atlanta, 13-0. 1974 — New York shortstop Jim ...

Many of you are probably screaming for robot umpires at this moment. But if you look at the consistency of the strike zone, it’s remarkable how much things have changed in the past 18 seasons.

The debate about robot umpires is growing as fans want fairer games. The Eddings controversy in the Cubs-Tigers game has made fans and experts question umpiring in baseball.

Yet robot umpiring has seemed inevitable to many in the baseball world. The development of ABS wasn’t due to one single event, according to Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice-president of ...

Robot umpires, of course, can't be fooled. So what happens when framing falls out of focus? One name comes to mind for Servais: Piazza. "Mike was actually a pretty good receiver.

Well, it seems that’s where we are headed. Just this week alone, the umpire scorecards (yes, umpires get scored on their performance) revealed that MLB umpires across the league missed over 1,000 ...