MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
Teams successful on 52.2% of ball/strike challenges during spring training robot umpire test
Major League Baseball said Wednesday that 617 of 1,182 challenges were successful in the 288 exhibition games using the ...
San Diego has ‘big plans’ to celebrate American Legion Baseball’s 100th anniversary
American Legion Baseball will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, and San Diego — which revived Legion ball in the area five summers ago — has big plans for the centennial celebration. “We have ...
A spring training’s worth of the automated ball-strike challenge system: Are robot umps coming to MLB?
The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a Spring Training game against the Boston Red Sox last week – so ...
Verdict is in on MLB's ABS challenge system: 52% overturned in spring training
The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.
What the data from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test says about baseball’s future
Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...
FAMU football coach James Colzie III opens up about side quest as an SEC softball umpire
FAMU head football coach James Colzie III has been umpiring SEC softball games since 2009. He recently went viral for ...
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McFarland’s first career walk-off homer powers Stony Brook softball to series win over Charleston
During a tightly-contested series, the Stony Brook softball team rode a mix of its veterans and young guns to get back on ...
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When Algorithms Take the Field
Players’ and managers’ efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike zone have long been a part of the game.
When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean ...
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Fans sync up to call K's behind the plate
whether it was urging the home-plate umpire to ask for help on a check swing by pointing in unison up the first-base line, or calling foul balls or firing up their various punchout calls in time with ...