JUPITER, Fla. – One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike system (ABS), unofficially known by some as robot umpires.

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor ...

After years of fans and people around the game alike advocating for it, the automated ball-strike system was implemented in big league Spring Training this year. That was widely believed to portend ...

Astros catcher Yainer Diaz pauses during Sunday’s spring training game against the Cardinals during which the Astros got their first look at Major League Baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS).

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 ...

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Corbin Burnes recently learned something about baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) he found worrisome. “There is a margin ...

Major League Baseball is using spring training to test an automated ball-strike system which lets players challenge an umpire’s call. Players and fans are divided at the thought of MLB completely ...

The proposed system would allow each team two challenges per game to review pitch calls, with successful challenges retained. Data and feedback from players, coaches, and umpires who experienced the ...

(CNN) — The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a spring training game against the Boston Red Sox last week – so ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Major League Baseball will introduce an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System beginning in the 2026 season, allowing players to contest umpire calls on balls and strikes for the ...

Major League Baseball will continue to test the automatic ball-strike challenge system at the All-Star game in Atlanta. / Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Major League Baseball will continue testing the ...

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