PHOENIX -- Thirteen spring stadiums and over 60% of Cactus and Grapefruit League games will feature an automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system as MLB continues to inch closer to using it during ...

Major League Baseball is being extra cautious with the new Automated Ball Strike Challenge System going into effect this season. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last week that MLB broadcasts will not ...

Baseball has survived scandals, rule changes, and generational shifts, but few topics have split the sport like the push toward an automated strike zone. What began as a quiet experiment in the minor ...

MESA, Ariz. — For the first five months of Triple-A Iowa’s 2025 season, right-hander Gavin Hollowell let his catchers decide whether to signal for the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system on any ...

Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever since. Strike-zone judgment has been the subject of some untold number of ...

The Cincinnati Reds are one of the better teams this spring at employing MLB's new ball-strike challenge system. Its impact ...

Major League Baseball is being extra cautious with the new Automated Ball Strike Challenge System going into effect this season. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last week that MLB broadcasts will not ...

Just over half the ball/strike challenges were successful on the first day of spring training games Friday as Major League Baseball prepared for the first regular-season use of the automated ...

PHOENIX –– When it comes to the new ball-strike challenge system being implemented in Major League Baseball this year, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts doesn’t yet have any hard-and-fast rules for his ...

A view of the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System’s call of a ball as it appeared during the Seattle Mariners game on Friday. (Screen grab via Mariners.TV) The Seattle Mariners opened their Spring ...

Joe Martínez, vicepresidente de estrategias en el terreno de las Grandes Ligas, ofrece una presentación sobre el sistema automatizado de bolas y strikes, el jueves 12 de febrero de 2026, en Scottsdale ...