The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're awarded first base after four balls in at at-bat. Brown, however, took five ...

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.

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

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 ...

Mike Axisa: I've softened up over the years. I used to be a hardcore robo ... and it does it quickly. MLB's umpires are very good -- they're the best in the world at what they do -- and they ...

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

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 ...

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 ...