Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

MLB season is just a few days old but its safe to say we saw what will be the strangest walk of the entire year Saturday ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...

Blue Jays manager John Schneider was not happy with a first-inning call on Friday night. And everyone at home heard him.

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

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Wonder how the new Automated Ball-Strike System fared during Spring Training? Well, wonder no more. According to data ...

A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect ...