Major League Baseball has finally started experimenting with robot umpires, but it might be a while until we see them in ...

One of the biggest adjustments is that the zone called by umpires isn't a rectangle and tends to bulge in the middle. MLB research also found that the human strike zone tightens from 550 square ...

Last year, the system was in place at some Class AAA ballparks, allowing MLB to collect data on player and fan preferences while it honed the specifics of the automatic strike zone and nuances of ...

Baseball fans tuning into spring training games may have noticed another new wrinkle in a sport that’s experienced a host of ...

ABS maintains a rigid definition of the strike zone based on each batter's height. MLB will not be using ABS this spring to determine every call; rather, the league is employing a "challenge ...

ABS maintains a rigid definition of the strike zone based on each batter's height. MLB will not be using ABS this spring to determine every call; rather, the league is employing a "challenge ...

Amid complaints from fans and many players about the umpires' struggles with accurately calling the strike zone, MLB is testing its compromise to "robot umps" for the first time this spring.

“The strike-zone box that we display on broadcasts and our app probably is inconsistent with the way we currently do it with the challenge system,” said Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice ...

Predicting Every MLB Team's 2025 Opening Day Starting Rotation ... on television to show viewers an approximation of the strike zone could be reduced or removed from broadcasts altogether because ...

One of the biggest storylines of MLB spring training so far has been the implementation of the automated ball-strike (ABS) ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred talks with media ... The system is capable of pinpointing where the ball was in relation to the strike zone as it crosses the plate. It is similar to the line-calling ...