Using Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology, the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System will allow MLB players to contest ...
Many major league hitters will experience the ABS strike zone challenge system for the first time in a regular season when ...
As we enter the final week of the 2025 MLB regular season, the league has made a significant announcement, stating that it will implement an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System for the entirety of ...
It’s not just the challenges that will be changing baseball forever. Next season, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is hoping to roll out the automated ball-strike challenge system league-wide — a rule ...
NEW YORK — Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be ...
MLB fans got a taste of the automated balls & strikes (ABS) system during Spring Training 2025. Now, it’ll be coming to regular-season and postseason games in 2026. The league announced on September ...
Major League Baseball is being extra cautious with the new Automated Ball Strike Challenge System going into effect this season. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last week that MLB broadcasts will not ...
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Brayan Bello struck Aaron Judge out in the first inning of Friday’s game against the New York Yankees. And, as Yankees announcer Paul O’Neill noted, Bello recorded the ...
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 strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ...
SEATTLE — The current MLB strike zone has been in place since 1996. The zone itself has remained unchanged for a generation, but there have been adjustments to rules and protocols that have changed ...
It’s something we here at Baseball America have heard in numerous discussions over the past several years, as pitchers, coaches and front office officials have described the Triple-A zone as smaller ...
Finnegan Schick is an attorney in Boston. A tradition as old as baseball is coming to an end. Major League Baseball announced this week it will be extending video review into the last stubbornly human ...