The ABS has been used at the Triple-A level for 2023 and 2024. MLB research found that a challenge adds an estimated 17 ...

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 ...

MLB will be testing an automatic balls and strikes challenge system this spring training. Here's how it works.

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Terry Francona explained why he's encouraging Reds players not to make any challenges using the ABS system, which MLB is ...

COMING SOON: The Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) presented by @TMobile will be used during Spring Training games ...

Starting Thursday at Camelback Ranch, where the Dodgers and Cubs will open Cactus League play, the ABS challenge system will ...

For the first time in MLB history, a pitch was challenged using the new Automated Ball-Strikes system — and the call on the ...

This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment with ABS, the ...

There are no immediate plans to introduce the system in regular-season games yet. Questions remain about how large a role it ...

Major League Baseball’s Automatic Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) will be used in eight Atlanta Braves games this spring.

The Chicago Cubs kicked off their exhibition schedule on Thursday against the defending World Series champion Los Angeles ...