For the baseball purists among you, allow us to reiterate: Yes, there will still be a home-plate umpire, and that home ... and the top of the uniform pants — when the batter is in his stance ...

Umpires will probably give players slightly longer to decide whether to challenge than the one or two seconds MLB hopes will ...

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.