An automated ball-strike challenge system is debuting in MLB's spring training this year, the latest development to come out ...

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Starting Thursday at Camelback Ranch, where the Dodgers and Cubs will open Cactus League play, the ABS challenge system will ...

ABS is MLB’s name for an automated strike zone — also known as robot umps. In a full ABS game, there will be a human umpire ...

COMING SOON: The Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) presented by @TMobile will be used during Spring Training games ...

MLB is weighing options to dramatically reduce or remove the ubiquitous broadcast strike-zone box as part of bringing the ...

There are no immediate plans to introduce the system in regular-season games yet. Questions remain about how large a role it ...

A system for hitters, catchers and pitchers to challenge balls and strikes is being tested in some spring training ballparks.

What to know about robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges at 2025 MLB spring training Cactus League, ...

Tampa Bay Rays catcher Ben Rortvedt tried to pull a fast one on MLB's new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system on ...

Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever ...

For years, MLB fans have begged the league to do something about the atrocious umpiring behind the plate. Pitchers are ...