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

And now we all had to come back the next day, which was an off day for both teams and the umpires. So we all lost ... And it was the worst feeling in the world. What about games where delaying ...

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

Unlike 28 other teams in Major League Baseball, the Chicago Cubs have ... this is a great opportunity to look at the best and worst-case scenarios that exist for Chicago. Perhaps this ceiling ...

So, as the Orioles get set for the long journey that comes from a 162-game schedule, what are the best and worst-case scenarios ... has never played Major League Baseball. Cade Povich struggled ...

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 ...

Retired umpire Doug Harvey reveals in his wild autobiography (modestly titled They Called Me God: The Best Umpire Who Ever ... umpire Jim Reynolds, now MLB’s umpire supervisor, tells a story ...

MLB's umpires are very good -- they're the best in the world at what they do -- and they're getting better too. The data shows they miss fewer calls with each passing year. The challenge system is ...