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 ...

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.

ATLANTA – Minor league baseball players have had the opportunity to get familiar with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system. Major league players were introduced to it in spring training, but once ...

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).

For the first time in 95 MLB All-Star Games, a ball or strike might not be called by a human umpire. For tonight's MLB All-Star Game, MLB will utilize the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, ...

(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 ...

Thursday occasioned the first Major League Baseball game of the 2025 season. To be sure, it was an exhibition of the spring-training variety between the Chicago Cubs and reigning-champion Los Angeles ...

Major League Baseball plans to test the ball-strike challenge system during next year’s Spring Training, commissioner Rob Manfred said this week. Manfred suggested as much on Monday in a conversation ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Chicago White Sox pitcher Grant Taylor got a called third strike on Hunter Feduccia to end Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Or so it appeared. Feduccia tapped the top ...