After four years of experimentation in the minor leagues, MLB will allow teams to challenge umpires’ ball-strike calls based on the results of an automated system. The challenges are limited in number ...

Next season, umpires will continue to make ball-strike calls. A challenge system will be added. Pitchers, catchers, and batters will be allowed to challenge ball-strike calls. Each review will take ...

With MLB’s competition committee expected to approve the automated ball-strike challenge system on Tuesday, it’s a good time to explain both how ABS works and clear up some of its misconceptions.

The automatic balls and strikes (ABS) challenge system has been tested in Triple-A for a couple of seasons. It was also tested in spring training this year. Now it's taking center stage in MLB's ...

After testing the system for two seasons in Triple-A, Major League Baseball has decided to implement the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike) challenge system at the start of next year’s season. Since the ...

MLB announced plans to implement the Automated Ball Strike (ABS) Challenge System on a full-time basis, beginning with the 2026 regular season. The rule change comes after a vote by the joint ...

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 ...

Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in ...