Bob Nightengale and Gabe Lacques share feedback from players and managers regarding robot umpires in this year's Spring ...

It's time once again for the Grapefruit League! MLB spring training in Florida includes a strike zone challenge system in ...

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

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

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

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 game of baseball seems to be trending toward a new era that includes robot umpires. Robot umps are being tested during ...

Thursday's Cactus League opener, a 12-4 Cubs win, saw the first use of an automated ball-strike challenge system, commonly known as a "robot ump," between MLB teams. The Cubs used the challenge ...

The Detroit Tigers are one of 13 teams using the automated ball-strike challenge system in spring training. It's about time ...

system could be used for the regular season by 2026 The Major League Baseball (MLB) robot umpires won’t be rolled out for every game this spring, but they will be in play for Friday’s matchup ...

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 ...

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 ...