MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
MLB teams won 52.2% of ABS challenges during robot umpire test
Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...
What the data from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test says about baseball’s future
Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...
Four MLB Opening Day games to watch. Plus, reviewing the robot umpires
This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...
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Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
The recently retired umpire Jim Reynolds, now MLB’s umpire supervisor, tells a story that illustrates what a hall of mirrors ball-and-strike calling has become: “I had one conversation with a ...
Robot umpires take to the field for baseball's spring training | The Excerpt
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...
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MLB releases Spring Training ABS challenge results
Wonder how the new Automated Ball-Strike System fared during Spring Training? Well, wonder no more. According to data ...
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On Rain Delays: An Interview With Former MLB Umpire Dale Scott
Weather plays a big role in baseball games. And umpires are the ones, ultimately, who have to call rain delays. We talked ...
MLB Player Calls Out ABS Robot-Umpire amid Rule Changes: 'This Is Not Tennis'
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A spring training’s worth of the automated ball-strike challenge system: Are robot umps ...
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 ...