MLB will be testing an automatic balls and strikes challenge system this spring training. Here's how it works.

Cody Poteet successfully challenged a fastball he threw in the Cubs' spring training opener with MLB's Automated Ball-Strike ...

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 ...

Starting Thursday at Camelback Ranch, where the Dodgers and Cubs will open Cactus League play, the ABS challenge system will ...

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The Reds are one of a handful of teams with an automatic ball-strike system in spring training, but their manager won’t let them use it.

Major League Baseball is testing the automated ball-strike challenge system in spring training and Pete Alonso got his first taste of it during the Mets spring training game against the Houston Astros ...

Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona says he's told players not to use the experimental Automated Ball-Strike System in ...

He figures there’s little point for veterans to use it since the system won’t be in effect in the majors this season.

Here is what every big leaguer needs to know about ABS, according to players and managers who have experience with it in the ...

Major League Baseball will use the new technology during select 2025 Spring Training games to get real-time results and ...