Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

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

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

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

MLB made a huge push towards the future with the Automated Ball-Strike System taking over spring training ... who had some mixed feelings about the robot umpires. "I like it as a hitter," said ...

Those umpires are back behind the plate across the country today with the Major League Baseball season officially getting ...

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires ... games with the ABS last year. A challenge averaged 13.8 ...

The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter ... The effects of the ABS are most visible in the overall year-over-year strikeout percentage (23.1 this spring versus 24.2 ...

Just over half of them are rewarded at the ... This is how it looked for Tyler Funneman. The 42-year-old is MLB’s manager of umpire development. But first, he was a 13-year-old in Moweaqua ...