During spring training this year, Major League Baseball used a challenge system for balls and strikes based on ABS (automated ball-strike system). For those unaware, ABS uses a Hawk-Eye camera that ...

After spring training wraps this week, MLB’s competition committee will begin collecting data from players, coaches, and ...

Yankees manager Aaron Boone hasn't been shy about how he dislikes the automated ball-strike challenge system that MLB is ...

The challenge system, which even included iPads in each ... with this being the first game of the spring and with ABS being tested in 13 different ballparks in Arizona and Florida.

Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

MLB has implemented an automated ball-strike, or ABS, challenge system this spring, giving players the opportunity to contest ...

The ABS challenge system is being tested during spring training games in 2025 and could be a new rule in MLB when the 2026 ...

Gavin Lux didn't just lose a chance to collect his World Series ring on Opening Day when he was traded from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Cincinnati Reds in De ...

Last week we picked our own walk-up music. This week we're going to tackle the automated strike zone challenge system. Do you like the ABS challenge system? Do you prefer full robo-umps?

Thirteen spring stadiums and over 60% of Cactus and Grapefruit League games will feature an automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system.

But one piece of tech that hasn't made its way to the collegiate level yet is the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system. The ...