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2025 Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Project: Why MLB Should Abandon The Idea
The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system is being tested in just over half of the scheduled Grapefruit and Cactus ...
San Francisco Giants
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Justin Verlander was on a minor-league rehab assignment when he got his first taste of the automated ball ...
Will MLB Use Automated Strike Zone (ABS) for 2025 Regular Season?
Major League Baseball is experimenting with the ABS challenge system during spring training in 2025, but there are currently ...
Robot umps? Cardinals test out automated ball-strike system in spring training
One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals' spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike ...
Why MLB’s ABS ball-strike challenge system may hurt Cal Raleigh, Mariners more
The ABS challenge system is being tested this spring as MLB ponders a wider plunge. But it could erase pitch framing, one of ...
The Big Lead8d
MLB's ABS challenge system arose in part because of players' concerns about umpire gambling
It's no coincidence that MLB is testing a version of the automatic ball-strike (ABS) system in spring training games this year, allowing pitchers, catchers, and hitters to challenge umpires ...
Yankees’ Aaron Boone doesn’t hide his thoughts on ‘weird’ robot umpires experiment
NORTH PORT, Fla. — Just over a week into the automated ball-strike system (ABS) experiment, Aaron Boone is not a fan.
Robot umpires aren’t meant to get the call right. They’re all about manufacturing drama
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 ...