Major League Baseball (MLB) is introducing robots to spring training this year on a trial basis in the form of the ABS ...

This spring training will introduce a new element to the action: for the first time, MLB will employ the automated ...

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

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 ...

What to know about robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges at 2025 MLB spring training Cactus League, ...

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Tampa Bay Rays catcher Ben Rortvedt tried to pull a fast one on MLB's new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system on ...

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

MLB is weighing options to dramatically reduce or remove the ubiquitous broadcast strike-zone box as part of bringing the ...

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Cardinals outfielder, who has a keen sense of the strike zone, wins team's first challenge of the ABS era, but says he's 'not ...

The new computerized system is being tested during spring training, leading to a series of challenges from players who don’t ...