Baseball fans tuning into spring training games may have noticed another new wrinkle in a sport that’s experienced a host of ...

Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.

Veteran MLB umpire Mike Muchlinski went viral on social media for his sense of humor after he got one of his strike zone calls challenged. Muchlinski was the home plate umpire for Tuesday’s ...

which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes ...

While MLB's ABS challenge system (automated balls and strikes) is still in the testing phase this spring training, we're already seeing how umpires respond to the system on the field. And credit ...

MLB will be using robot umpires in spring training this year / Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment ...