Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition ...
MLB Unveils New Challenge System Involving Robot Umpires for Spring Training
This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment with ABS, the ...
MLB spring training 2025 features robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges
What to know about robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges at 2025 MLB spring training Cactus League, ...
Ump show: It took robots 1 inning to make human MLB umpires look horrible
What if I told you there was once a day when human umpires ruled all? It didn't matter if they were right, wrong, or somewhere in between. These human umpires o ...
This could be baseball’s last season without ‘robot umpires’
Though this hybrid umpire system won’t make its way to regular season major league games in 2025, player and fan reactions ...
MLB's automated ball-strike system explained as spring training games kick off with robo-ump challenges
This spring training will introduce a new element to the action: for the first time, MLB will employ the automated ...
Players 1, umpires 0: Cubs hurler Cody Poteet makes first ABS challenge in spring training and wins
Chicago Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet believed the 95 mph fastball he threw to Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy was in the strike zone. Plate umpire Tony Randazzo disagreed and called it a ball.
Phillies will get their first look at robot umps in spring games: ‘There is some strategy to it’
An automated ball-strike system will be available for 27 of the Phillies' 31 spring training games. Rob Thomson liked what he ...
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MLB announces umpire hires, with Jen Pawol again working big league spring training
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 ...
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Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez and Alex MacKay hired as fulltime major league umpires
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 staff ...
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MLB hires Clemons, Jiménez, MacKay as full-time umpires
NEW YORK -- Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez and Alex MacKay were hired Friday as full-time major league umpires, and Major League Baseball said Dan Merzel and Nate Tomlinson had been added to the ...