Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Kansas City Royals catcher Freddy Fermin (34) takes a pitch as home plate umpire Quinn Wolcott (81) calls ...

If they challenge, the pitch graphic appears on the scoreboard and broadcast, and the umpire updates the count. The MLB says this takes about 17 seconds. The MLB has been testing ABS challenges in ...

which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days and now that includes Major League Baseball. The league is testing new robot umpires during spring training in the form of an ...

Apr 30, 2023; Mexico City, Mexico; Home plate umpire Pat Hoberg (31) calls an out in the fifth inning during a MLB World Tour game between the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants at ...

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.

The Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them, will be tested this spring. A computerized system that calls ...

Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.