Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

Mike Axisa: I've softened up over the years. I used to be a hardcore robo ... and it does it quickly. MLB's umpires are very good -- they're the best in the world at what they do -- and they ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!

It's no coincidence that MLB is testing a version of the automatic ball-strike (ABS) system in spring training games this year, allowing pitchers, catchers, and hitters to challenge umpires ...

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires ... games with the ABS last year. A challenge averaged 13.8 ...

MLB made a huge push towards the future with the Automated Ball-Strike System taking over spring training ... who had some mixed feelings about the robot umpires. "I like it as a hitter," said ...

Just over half of them are rewarded at the ... This is how it looked for Tyler Funneman. The 42-year-old is MLB’s manager of umpire development. But first, he was a 13-year-old in Moweaqua ...