Major League Baseball (MLB) will test the use of robot umpires as part of a challenge system during Spring training next year, with the aim of implementing the system in the 2026 regular season. The ...

The idea behind the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system is to use science and technology to ensure a more orderly and precise outcome on critical calls, but there’s still a human element that ...

Major League Baseball's experiment of a robot umpire technology system allowing challenges to checked swing calls is moving ...

The New York Yankees will take the field at Oracle Park in San Francisco on March 25 to open the 2026 MLB season. Taking the field with them will be an army of robots. For the first time in MLB ...

Major League Baseball announced the automated ball-strike challenge system last September, commonly referred to as “robot umpires,” which will be used in all MLB regular season and postseason games.

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising games in perhaps ...

Here's more on the controversial strike out against Geraldo Perdomo in the 2026 WBC against USA.

Anyone who’s heard about that crazy, umpire-free independent league in California is hereby forgiven for waffling on the issue. You can’t decide if it’s the next frontier in the majors or just too ...

During the World Baseball Classic, most of the rules are fairly similar to what fans will see during a typical MLB game played in the United States.

Just 102 days after a thrilling World Series ended with the Los Angeles Dodgers becoming the first repeat champion in a quarter century, pitchers and catchers are back on the field Tuesday as spring ...