Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...
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, ...
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...
Who signs up for the unforgiving grind of becoming an umpire now? Start with the 56 candidates at MLB Umpire Prospect ...
An Arizona Wildcats baseball player was called out at first base due to the new safety double base rule being experimented ...
Major League Baseball said Wednesday that 617 of 1,182 challenges were successful in the 288 exhibition games using the ...
Keith Hernandez played more than 2,000 MLB games at first base, and he’s in his 20th season working as a TV analyst on New ...
What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!
A man in a league of his own, Bruce Lazaruk, was honored Wednesday for dedicating 50 years of service as an umpire on the diamond.
I bring all of this up because in addition to the new rules in baseball, like the pitch clock, the ghost runner, and extra innings, now, comes another wrinkle, the AI umpire. In some spring training ...
Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...