Analysis of the impact of the Automated Ball and Strike System (ABS) on MLB 2026: success statistics, record attendance, and ...

San Francisco — New York's José Caballero thought for sure the pitch from Logan Webb had missed the strike zone, so he challenged the human umpire's call - and made major league history in the process ...

Major League Baseball's newest automated ball-strike system (ABS) has not been kind to the Toronto Blue Jays. In fact, the ...

Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising games in perhaps the last season ...

Home-plate umpires have long held one of the toughest jobs in sports, so their shortcomings shouldn't (always) be mocked. But their time as ball-and-strike arbiters is in the bottom of ...

Umpire Ryan Additon watches as a call is challenged using MLB's ABS challenge system during the third inning of a spring training baseball game between the Miami Marlins and the Houston Astros ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The first game-ending call by a so-called robot umpire gave Albert Suárez his first major league save in nine years, ending the Baltimore Orioles' 8-3 win over the Texas Rangers on ...

That's because "robot umpires," in a sense, have officially arrived to MLB. The human element remains, but players will now ...

Major League Baseballs are upset with the new automated ball-strike challenge system, and they'd be wise to put their grievances aside.

NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues this year. The Automated Ball/Strike System will be introduced in the form of a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each call, ...