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

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

For years, fans have wanted an automatic strike zone in Major League Baseball. They're simply sick and tired of missed calls ...

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

Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up America's pastime is looking a ...

Teams won 52.2 per cent of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

In this data-driven era, with AI ripping the steering wheel out of our hands, who knows with any degree of certainty where ...

Major League Baseball is being dragged into the future, even as some players and fans kick and scream. Thirteen spring training ... Strike System allows the players closest to the strike zone ...

Spring training is traditionally a time of new beginnings ... number of challenges per game to ensure accuracy in the strike zone. Fans and players alike want to see if ABS is an asset or merely ...

Down 2-1 in the count, King pitched a sinker to the low-and-away corner of the strike zone. Originally called a ball, J.T. Realmuto immediately calls for a challenge using Major League Baseball ...

So why did baseball just spend spring training fiddling with a system that will not be used in a single regular-season game this year? It was all about the robot-ump strike-zone experience ...