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

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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Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

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 ...

Catch all the action between the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers in this MLB matchup live on Tuesday at Dodger ...

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

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a Spring Training game against the Boston Red Sox last week – so ...

The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.