The strategic side of baseball's next big rule change is already in motion. Here's the early thinking from MLB managers.
The ABS arrives amid social media accounts and content creators regularly using data and game footage to evaluate umpire ...
The challenge system for calling balls and strikes seems to be less than a year away. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred tells Evan Drellich of The Athletic that the league will propose that change, to go ...
Sept. 23 (UPI) --Major League Baseball entered an age of robot umpiring Tuesday after a league committee approved a high-tech system for players to challenge calls. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...
When an electronic ball-strike system arrives in the big leagues at some point in the next few years, it won’t be used to call every pitch. Major League Baseball made that clear Tuesday, when it sent ...
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Maybe more than ever, we simply can't stop talking about how the umpires call balls and strikes. That is, how poorly they make those calls, at least if you listen to the masses.
NEW YORK – Will there be fewer of Aaron Boone’s famous tirades about the strike zone in 2026? Well, maybe. On Tuesday, MLB’s Joint Competition Committee adopted the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...