Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!

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 ...

There’s a little extra spark when the Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers play one another, sometimes leading to arguments with ...

Spring training this year has featured another seismic twist: the chance for the pitcher, catcher, or batter to overturn the umpire’s ball or strike call with a camera array called the Automatic ...

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

That comes in slow-motion replays and with video reviews and on social media recaps, such as Umpire Scorecards, which has 372,800 followers on X. (Forget the strike zone shown on a television ...