Next season, the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System will be introduced to the major leagues. After experimenting with the process in the minors and in spring training, the ABS Challenge ...

With the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system in line to be fully integrated in Major League games at the start of next season, it will mark the biggest rule change the sport has seen since ...

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) ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...

On Tuesday, Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball announced that after much testing, trial and error, including during this year’s All-Star game, the league would integrate an automated balls and ...

Freud: Against. The old system was fine. The individual umpire is the ego, keeping the id of the players honest, while the ...

The robot umps are here. Major League Baseball’s competition committee on Tuesday afternoon approved the introduction of the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, for the 2026 regular season. Every ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Major League Baseball will introduce an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System beginning in the 2026 season, allowing players to contest umpire calls on balls and strikes for the ...