Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season. A Tuesday vote from the MLB Joint Competition Committee, an 11-person group that includes six team owners, four ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --Major League Baseball entered an age of robot umpiring Tuesday after a league committee approved a high-tech system for players to challenge calls. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

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 ...

Rejoice, MLB fans, robot umpires are almost here ... well, kind of. The league joint competition committee met Tuesday to vote on whether to bring the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system to ...