As baseball adapts to the challenge system, a pattern has emerged: Veteran umpires are having the most calls overturned.

The nation’s professional league added a fleet of so-called robot umpires to the field during its 2024 season, hoping to even out the playing field. Called the Automatic Ball-Strike system (ABS), it ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers launch their bid for a World Series hat-trick as Major League Baseball's new season gets under way on Wednesday with "robot umpires" ushering in a new era for America's pastime ...

As far as people go, baseball cares only about two discrete cohorts. First, Youngs. Baseball is more terrified of aging than your average Hollywood actor. The game will do anything to seem hip and ...

Jimmy O’Brien: I don’t think the fan nor Major League Baseball—and Rob Manfred has said this—realized how much of an entertainment spectacle it was going to be in stadium to have the big board show up ...

Major League Baseball announced the automated ball-strike challenge system last September, commonly referred to as “robot umpires,” which will be used in all MLB regular season and postseason games.

Minor League Baseball umpires will be getting help from robots. The league created a job posting for Automated Ball and Strike (ABS) system techs. "ABS will leverage optical tracking data to determine ...