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

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...

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

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

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 ...

Yes, there are strike-zone parameters in the official ... would be losing something if you took the home-plate-umpire judgment out.” The challenge system is a compromise, Sword said.

According to statistics released Wednesday by Major League Baseball, 52.2 percent of ball-strike challenges this spring resulted in a successful overturn of the home-plate umpire’s original ... the ...

Soto followed Lindor in the lineup, working a 1-2 count before being called out on strikes on a 92 mph changeup. Unhappy with the call, Soto exchanged a few words with the umpire before walking ...

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

And while spring training is a time for teams to test out new players and strategies ... a robotic system to verify calls made by the home plate’s umpire. Was it a ball? Was it a strike? Well, here to ...