Major League Baseball (MLB) is introducing robots to spring training this year on a trial basis in the form of the ABS ...

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 ...

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

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

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

This spring training will introduce a new element to the action: for the first time, MLB will employ the automated ...

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

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

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Major League Baseball’s Automatic Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) will be used in eight Atlanta Braves games this spring.

The pitch was called a ball, but it was close, right on the edge of the strike zone. For an instant, Diamondbacks pitcher ...