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Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.
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Announcer stunned by umpire's behavior
I’ve never seen that, that positioning by a first-base umpire, in my playing days, not even in Little League.” “I would have ...
MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Who signs up for the unforgiving grind of becoming an umpire now? Start with the 56 candidates at MLB Umpire Prospect ...
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Man behind the mask: Bruce Lazaruk begins 50th season as baseball umpire
Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...
Teams successful on 52.2% of ball/strike challenges during spring training robot umpire test
Major League Baseball said Wednesday that 617 of 1,182 challenges were successful in the 288 exhibition games using the ...
What the data from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test says about baseball’s future
Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...
Robot umpires take to the field for baseball's spring training | The Excerpt
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...
The Philly area’s oldest umpire is 82 and spends his days calling strikes and asking sports history questions
Since he was a child, Cherry Hill resident Richard Glazer has loved baseball. Now at 82, he spends about six months a year as ...
What we learned from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test: Players, managers, execs weigh in
What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!
Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up
The sport has seen a flurry of rule adjustments in just the past decade and a half, with more on the horizon. America's ...
Verdict is in on MLB's ABS challenge system: 52% overturned in spring training
The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.
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'If you don't have umpires, you can't play baseball': Portage umpire chief alerting residents to local ump clinic
The melting snow is a reminder that sunnier, much warmer days are ahead for the region. And with those warmer days will come ...