Major League Baseball has introduced several new rules in recent seasons, but perhaps the most significant one is being tested during Spring Training this year.

So are major leaguers ready to play baseball in technology’s universe — as opposed to Vic Carapazza’s universe? They’re about to find out. Do robot umps even have hands? We’re pretty ...

MLB is giving players and managers a taste of the automated ball-strike system as the league weighs whether to fully implement it.

the robot alone for the first three games of each series and a human with a challenge system in the final three. That system was in place at the start of 2024, but MLB switched to an all-challenge ...

Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

Major League Baseball is introducing an Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) robot program in spring training, allowing teams the ...

In this year’s baseball spring training, the new Automated Ball-Strike System is helping settle challenges to home plate ...

If it’s challenge-system feedback baseball wants this spring, then I think we found just the man to supply it.

Though that was once largely considered out of the bounds of possibility, MLB games officiated by so-called “robot umpires” are now closer to reality than ever before. Starting this week ...

The robot ump’s replay showed that it was low. So low that, had it been called a strike, someone would have written that the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in ...