Dodgers get first look at MLB’s automated ball/strike challenge system: ‘Don’t hate the idea’
There are no immediate plans to introduce the system in regular-season games yet. Questions remain about how large a role it should have in games that count.
What is ABS? How MLB's ball-strike challenge system will work in spring training
ABS is MLB’s name for an automated strike zone — also known as robot umps. In a full ABS game, there will be a human umpire behind the plate, signaling the calls communicated through ABS. We won’t be seeing that full system in action this spring. Instead, teams will have a limited amount of challenges.
MLB's automated ball-strike system explained as spring training games kick off with robo-ump challenges
This spring training will introduce a new element to the action: for the first time, MLB will employ the automated ball-strike system (ABS for short) during big-league contests. ABS is, for those unfamiliar with the concept,
MLB to Use ABS Challenge System in Spring Training; Strike Zone Explained in Photos
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Yankees get first look at MLB’s automated ball-strike system
The Yankees will get their first taste of the possible not-too-distant future in Friday’s Grapefruit League opener.
MLB spring training 2025 features robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges
What to know about robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges at 2025 MLB spring training Cactus League, Grapefruit League games.
MLB to test automated ball-strike challenge system during spring games
Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever since. Strike-zone judgment has been the subject of some untold number of verbal (and,
Mets get first taste of automated ball-strike system in spring training
PORT ST. LUCIE — Thursday was a dress rehearsal of sorts for the Mets’ utilizing the automated ball-strike system. That technology will be used at Clover Park beginning with Saturday’s exhibition opener against the Astros.
Everything to know about the MLB's ball-strike challenge system at spring training
MLB players can challenge ball and strike calls. The camera-based system is only an experiment for now — but it has the baseball world wondering where to draw the line with technology.
Strike zone challenges debut in over half of '25 spring training games
A tap of the cap or helmet has new meaning in 2025 spring training games. In more than 55 percent of spring training games over the next six weeks, Major League Baseball is employing the Automated Ball-Strike System,
Automated strike zone could benefit Astros’ Yainer Diaz and Isaac Paredes
Diaz’s inability to steal strikes and Paredes’ perpetual victimization by poor umpiring would, at the very least, be ...
The Padres were testing the automated strike zone during live batting practice and it's so cool
For years, MLB fans have begged the league to do something about the atrocious umpiring behind the plate. Pitchers are ...