Initially a staunch opponent of the ABS system, Aaron Boone has accepted that he and the Yankees must plan for how they will approach it when it comes into effect next season. Robert Sabo for the NY ...

ATLANTA — Tarik Skubal views the strike zone differently than robot umpires. “I have this thing where I think everything is a strike until the umpire calls it a ball,” Detroit’s AL Cy Young Award ...

Editor’s Note: The story has been updated to correct that the bottom of the zone is 27% of a batter’s height and to incorporate information about the mid-point of the plate requiring a pitch plot ...

Finnegan Schick is an attorney in Boston. A tradition as old as baseball is coming to an end. Major League Baseball announced this week it will be extending video review into the last stubbornly human ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...

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 introduced in ...

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 ...

Major League Baseball's competition committee approved the automated strike zone challenge system for the 2026 season on Tuesday, the league announced. The 11-person committee consists of six owners, ...

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 strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ...

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 ...

Baseball players will now be able to challenge the strike zone if they disagree with the umpire’s call. The Automated Ball-Strike System, or ABS as it will become known among the many abbreviations ...