The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's getting rolled out for the first time in the big leagues during spring training.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in ...
During Tuesday's Cactus League game between the Padres and Angels, Muchlinski had already seen several of his calls ...
Veteran MLB umpire Mike Muchlinski went viral on social media for his sense of humor after he got one of his strike zone ...
He once took over a Babe Ruth team that no other coach wanted because its players were caught smoking and drinking, his ...
The new computerized system is being tested during spring training, leading to a series of challenges from players who don’t know the strike zone quite as well as they think.
Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.
Major League Baseball fired umpire Pat Hoberg after it was revealed he shared a legal sportsbook account with a professional gambler. Hoberg appeal ...
The robot ump’s replay showed that it was low. So low that, had it been called a strike, someone would have written that the ...
Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.
Beloved Little League umpire Shelley Curtis White will be honored by a new mural of the umpires who he mentored over the ...