MLB is giving players and managers a taste of the automated ball-strike system as the league weighs whether to fully ...

If it’s challenge-system feedback baseball wants this spring, then I think we found just the man to supply it.

Throughout the offseason, the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty ...

The game of baseball seems to be trending toward a new era that includes robot umpires. Robot umps are being tested during ...

PHOENIX — What once felt like a scene out of baseball science fiction will become reality Thursday afternoon when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the Chicago Cubs in the first spring training game ...

Get ready. Here come the robots. We’ve never lived in a world in which major-league spring training games had balls and strikes called by robot umps, otherwise known as the Automated Ball-Strike ...

Amid complaints from fans and many players about the umpires' struggles with accurately calling the strike zone, MLB is testing its compromise to "robot umps" for the first time this spring.

As it seeks a solution somewhere between full-on robot umpires and human umpires calling balls and strikes, MLB is experimenting with one such compromise—an Automated Ball-Strike challenge ...

The Angels will play 11 games in which MLB will experiment with an automated balls and strikes system during spring training this year. MLB has determined that fans and players prefer a challenge ...

But Nootbaar isn’t ready to invest all of that power on robo-umps. “I’m not a huge fan of just straight robo-umps,” the Cardinals outfielder continued. “That might be the old school in ...

For the Angels, Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians in Goodyear will be the first of 11 games with “robo-umps.” Left-hander Reid Detmers, who will start that day for the Angels ...