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.

Baseball fans tuning into spring training games may have noticed another new wrinkle in a sport that’s experienced a host of ...

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 ...

MLB will be using robot umpires in spring training this year / Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment ...