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

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

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 ...

How MLB created a so-called robo-ump system that uses cameras and computers to call balls and strikes and how players are ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pitch framing isn't going anywhere for a while, and soon catchers will likely add ball-strike challenges to their ...