WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Houston Astros manager Joe Espada wants his major-league players to take advantage of their limited exposure to the automated ball-strike challenge system being tested during ...

MLB’s automatic ball-strike challenge system was put to the test early in Tuesday’s All-Star Game. And it handled the situation with good accuracy. During the bottom of the first inning with the ...

Back in May, commissioner Rob Manfred indicated the automated strike zone system -- ABS for automated balls-strikes -- would likely come to Major League Baseball in the form of a challenge system when ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — Justyn-Henry Malloy is renowned for his elite plate discipline and rare ability to swing at pitches within the strike zone, so much so that he has been dubbed the human version of the ...

Over the years, MLB has heard the vocal demands for robot umps (or ABS) as umpires struggle to keep up with the increased velocity and movement in today's game. The league tested an ABS challenge ...

In what may be a prelude to future changes at the big-league level, Major League Baseball has informed farm-system directors across the league that the Triple-A level will pivot to using the challenge ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs met on Thursday for the first matchup of Spring Training, with the visiting Cubs winning a lopsided affair. However, the lopsided score took a backseat to ...

At Yankees camp on Wednesday, Luis Gil threw a pitch to Aaron Judge that tailed just below the zone. Gil disagreed. Believing it caught the bottom of the plate, he put his hand to his cap. The players ...

As MLB tests an Automated Ball-Strike challenge system in roughly half of its spring training games in the lead-up to the 2025 regular season, at least one team won't be participating in the ...