Is this the year baseball raises the strike zone? Is it the year the sport does away with the practice of lobbing four balls toward home plate to issue an intentional walk? Major League Baseball has ...

MLB fans got a taste of the automated balls & strikes (ABS) system during Spring Training 2025. Now, it’ll be coming to regular-season and postseason games in 2026. The league announced on September ...

Major League Baseball will implement the automated Ball Strike System (ABS Challenge System) in 2026, it was announced on Tuesday. The Automated Ball Strike System (ABS) was used in Spring Training ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

NEW YORK — Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be ...

The robots are officially coming. Major League Baseball will be using the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) beginning in the 2026 season. Fans have been clamoring for this for years so ...

In a development that many Major League Baseball fans have been calling for for a long while, it was officially announced that the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System will be implemented for the ...

October 28 - Major League Baseball will begin testing a strike zone challenge system next year at spring training, commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed Monday. Manfred previously said the automated ...

Here's what to know about MLB's robot umps. How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the ...