At long last, player protest with ball or strike calls can be handled with something other than ineffectual arguing.

Hawk-Eye tracking cameras are positioned around the stadium. Five cameras are used to track pitches. Additional cameras around the stadium are used to track player position and ball location. Major ...

The surprising revelation in a Q-and-A with the New York Times came on the heels of Major League Baseball's first test of the 'challenge system' The scoreboard at LECOM Park displays a message about a ...

Robot umpires are officially knocking on the door of MLB. Commissioner Rob Manfred told The Athletic's Evan Drellich on Wednesday that the league will test an automated ball-strike challenge system in ...

A national audience is about to learn all about the automatic balls and strikes (ABS) challenge system. MLB will employ the ABS system in next week’s All-Star Game on July 15 while there are growing ...

For a certain segment of baseball fans, the Automated Ball-Strike system is a long time coming. With the technology to know for certain that a pitch is being called correctly, the thinking is that ...

Nobody’s perfect, and umpires are human and make mistakes. But MLB hitters and pitchers have had to live with those mistakes behind the plate. Until 2026. Starting next year, MLB will implement an ...