What is ABS? How MLB's ball-strike challenge system will work in spring training
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 behind the plate, signaling the calls communicated through ABS. We won’t be seeing that full system in action this spring. Instead, teams will have a limited amount of challenges.
MLB is weighing options to dramatically reduce or remove the ubiquitous broadcast strike-zone box as part of bringing the ...
For years, MLB fans have begged the league to do something about the atrocious umpiring behind the plate. Pitchers are ...
Tampa Bay Rays catcher Ben Rortvedt tried to pull a fast one on MLB's new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system on ...
Diaz’s inability to steal strikes and Paredes’ perpetual victimization by poor umpiring would, at the very least, be ...
In order to prevent batters from gaming the system, switching up their batting stances in order to create a smaller strike zone, MLB now defines the strike zone’s upper limit as 53.5 percent of ...
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