Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

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 ...

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...

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 ...

Since he was a child, Cherry Hill resident Richard Glazer has loved baseball. Now at 82, he spends about six months a year as ...

Bennis officials aren’t entwined in the aesthetics of their game the way umpires are in baseball. Nor, for that matter, are referees in football, basketball, and hockey. The controversies in NFL ...

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

Richard Gould says he gets enough leg exercise behind the plate as a baseball umpire. He umpires Florida State Club Baseball ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game, making the men in blue barely noticeable. Bruce Lazaruk is regarded one of those types of umpires. However, while he might not be seen ...

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...