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Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the personality of a junkyard dog has always been a unique character in the ...
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...
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 ...
Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...
In sports, sometimes there are things that are bigger than the game, as was the case between two high school baseball teams.
The short-lived league had teams in Poughkeepsie and Kingston, among others, and is known “for several oddities and firsts,” ...
Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...
The sport has seen a flurry of rule adjustments in just the past decade and a half, with more on the horizon. America's ...
The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.
The melting snow is a reminder that sunnier, much warmer days are ahead for the region. And with those warmer days will come ...