CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...
Dale Scott explains how MLB's unreliable on-screen strike box has pushed umpires from resistance to acceptance of the ...
Only two teams (the White Sox and the Astros) were hurt by a larger net number of bad ball-strike calls than were the ...
The age-old tradition of arguing balls and strikes may become a lost art, but the goal is to eliminate those frustrating ...
There are different lines of thought in baseball, both among fans and those in the industry, about the future of calling ...
Here's what to know about MLB's robot umps. How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the ...
Of 43 players who saw at least 2,500 pitches in the 2025 regular season, Aaron Judge had the eighth-most bad calls go against ...
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, ...
Starting in the 2026 season, Major League Baseball players will be able to challenge called balls and strikes in regular and postseason games for the first time. The widely expected adoption of the ...