This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment with ABS, the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, to ensure the home plate umpire gets ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs played the first spring training game of 2025 on Thursday and debuted some new technology in the process. Thursday's Cactus League opener, a 12-4 Cubs win, saw ...

Major League Baseball plans to test the ball-strike challenge system during next year’s Spring Training, commissioner Rob Manfred said this week. Manfred suggested as much on Monday in a conversation ...

PHOENIX — For more than 150 years, the game of baseball has relied on humans behind home plate to call balls and strikes. This spring, for the first time in Major League history, players will be able ...

Robot umpires are officially knocking on the door of MLB. Commissioner Rob Manfred told The Athletic's Evan Drellich on Wednesday that the league will test an automated ball-strike challenge system in ...