On Tuesday, Major League Baseball officially announced that they are going to make a change for the 2026 season. MLB will be adding an ABS Challenge System, which will see balls and strikes being ...

In recent years, we've seen MLB become more receptive to the technology at its disposal. The league expanded the replay challenge rules, added a pitch clock and introduced Statcast to elevate how fans ...

With MLB’s competition committee expected to approve the automated ball-strike challenge system on Tuesday, it’s a good time to explain both how ABS works and clear up some of its misconceptions.

Major League Baseball has done a lot of experimenting lately. Rule changes have been hitting the scene left and right. It wasn't until very recently that challenges were introduced into the sport, and ...

Thursday's Cactus League game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will be more than just the first spring training game of 2025. It'll also be a bit of baseball history: For the first ...

1. Major League Baseball scored a big victory with the pitch clock in 2023. The league has another potential win on its hands with the automated ball-strike system (ABS). The challenge system is being ...

For some time now, an automated strike zone -- informally known as the "robo ump" -- has been used at the Triple-A level and on occasion at various other rungs of the minor leagues. Recently, MLB ...

As we enter the final week of the 2025 MLB regular season, the league has made a significant announcement, stating that it will implement an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System for the entirety of ...