A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor ...

JUPITER, Fla. – One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike system (ABS), unofficially known by some as robot umpires.

Astros catcher Yainer Diaz pauses during Sunday’s spring training game against the Cardinals during which the Astros got their first look at Major League Baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS).

The ABS arrives amid social media accounts and content creators regularly using data and game footage to evaluate umpire ...

Thursday occasioned the first Major League Baseball game of the 2025 season. To be sure, it was an exhibition of the spring-training variety between the Chicago Cubs and reigning-champion Los Angeles ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Major League Baseball plans to test the ball-strike challenge system during next year’s Spring Training, commissioner Rob Manfred said this week. Manfred suggested as much on Monday in a conversation ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

Brett Sullivan caught a couple of games at the University of the Pacific, but he didn’t truly move behind the plate until 2016, his second year in the Tampa Bay Rays system. The 30-year-old veteran ...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Chicago White Sox pitcher Grant Taylor got a called third strike on Hunter Feduccia to end Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Or so it appeared. Feduccia tapped the top ...

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