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

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

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

On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...

Add umpires to the list of jobs at risk of being replaced by robots. Major League Baseball this week will begin testing an automated system that will keep count of balls and strikes. The tests ...

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 ...

Major League Baseball has introduced several new ... you want to get the call right.” Home-plate umpires are still tasked with calling balls and strikes in games, but Hawk-Eye technology ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting ...

In a self-deprecating moment as Major League Baseball umpires begin to get used to the league's new automated balls and strikes (ABS) challenge system, umpire Mike Muchlinski declared the call of ...