Major League Baseball tested an automated balls and strikes challenge system in spring training games, allowing hitters, ...

The choice is not only whether to introduce ABS, but also whether to implement a change in the definition of the strike zone.

Major League Baseball is all geared up for a big change. The post MLB’s Attempt to Rule Out “Human Error” Faces Opposition ...

Before the first-ever game at the Major League Baseball level to include an automated challenge system for reviewing balls and strikes, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had only one rule. "I told Munc ...

In a statement to The Athletic's Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris, an MLB official explained the zone hasn't ...

The potential future implementation of the Automated-Balls-Strikes (ABS) system has been putting more of a spotlight on umpire errors, especially with the generally positive attitude towards ABS ...

LaMonte Wade Jr., though, isn’t opposed to the system as long as balls and strikes don’t become fully automated. Wade, who has often hit leadoff for the Giants this spring, has yet to ...

They say the shift in how balls and strikes are now called is already ... calling the rulebook strike zone while working with the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in the minor leagues.

According to The Athletic, MLB changed how its home plate umpires are evaluated on their calls of balls and strikes. MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been ...

inside and outside the strike zone — when they were graded on how accurately they called balls and strikes. Now, however, that buffer zone has shrunk, from 2 inches on all sides to just three ...