Robot Umpires Have Come to MLB—and They’re Making Players Look Completely Clueless
The new computerized system is being tested during spring training, leading to a series of challenges from players who don’t ...
This could be baseball’s last season without ‘robot umpires’
Though this hybrid umpire system won’t make its way to regular season major league games in 2025, player and fan reactions ...
Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition ...
MLB spring training 2025 features robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges
What to know about robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges at 2025 MLB spring training Cactus League, ...
Robot umps are here: What MLB players need to know to navigate ABS this spring
Here is what every big leaguer needs to know about ABS, according to players and managers who have experience with it in the ...
Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) presents challenges for MLB: Crowquill
Major League Baseball (MLB) is introducing robots to spring training this year on a trial basis in the form of the ABS ...
MLB debuts robot ump challenge system at Dodgers-Cubs spring training opener
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs played the first spring training game of 2025 on Thursday and debuted some new ...
What is ABS? How MLB's ball-strike challenge system will work in spring training
ABS is MLB’s name for an automated strike zone — also known as robot umps. In a full ABS game, there will be a human umpire ...
What is MLB’s ‘ABS Challenge System’? Inside baseball’s newest ‘robot umps’ technology
COMING SOON: The Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) presented by @TMobile will be used during Spring Training games ...
First Look at Robot Umps Overturning Strike Call in 2025 MLB Spring Training
The Automated Ball-Strike system, or ABS system, which was tested at the Triple-A level during the 2023 and '24 seasons, is ...
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Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
the robot alone for the first three games of each series and a human with a challenge system in the final three. That system was in place at the start of 2024, but MLB switched to an all-challenge ...
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Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
TAMPA, Fla. — A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments ...