Major League Baseball will implement a challenge system based on Automated Balls and Strikes (ABS) next season, the league announced Tuesday. The system was tested with some positive response from ...

Rejoice, MLB fans, robot umpires are almost here ... well, kind of. The league joint competition committee met Tuesday to vote on whether to bring the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledged on Wednesday that he intends to submit a proposal to the league's competition committee this offseason that would implement the automated ...

MLB will implement the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System permanently in 2026. Fans and managers, including Terry Francona, generally support the ABS after testing it. The system allows ...

Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season. A Tuesday vote from the MLB Joint Competition Committee, an 11-person group that includes six team owners, four ...

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 ...

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) ...