New Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona plans to opt out of elective participation in the automated ball-strike challenge trial during spring training, but he is still willing to let the organization’s minor league players get accustomed to the system ABS is a system that is being tried out at 13 ballparks in spring training,

The Reds are one of a handful of teams with an automatic ball-strike system in spring training, but their manager won’t let them use it.