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

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

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

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

In their 2016 book “Bad Call,” researchers Harry Collins ... balance between machine precision and the human element of baseball is crucial. Players’ and managers’ efforts to work the umpires to ...

In their 2016 book “Bad Call,” researchers ... precision and the human element of baseball is crucial. Players’ and managers’ efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike ...

It has been used in minor-league baseball for several ... the human element of the umpire while still keeping everyone accountable and hopefully not letting bad calls change the outcomes of ...

In that system, the home plate umpire calls balls and strikes ... of an umpire calling balls and strikes is a bad thing. Major League Baseball is experimenting with the ABS challenge system ...