The ABS Challenge System was first utilized in MLB during spring training in 2025. | Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images MLB games will look different in spring ...
Major League Baseball's exhibition season gets underway Friday afternoon. Unlike most years, this round of spring training isn't just serving as a warm-up for the players, but rather will also serve ...
“People Don’t Challenge Enough” – Aaron Boone Gets Brutally Honest On MLB’s New ABS Challenge System
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone offers his thoughts on preparing his team to make good use of the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system. Based on the New York Yankees’ research into the use of ...
The robot umpires are here. Well, only kind of. MLB has a new ABS challenge system, and its implementation begins in Spring Training before being used throughout the regular season and postseason, too ...
Beginning this season, teams will be granted at least two challenges of the home-plate umpire’s strike zone each game, as well as an additional challenge in extra innings, if their initial two have ...
MESA, Ariz. — For the first five months of Triple-A Iowa’s 2025 season, right-hander Gavin Hollowell let his catchers decide whether to signal for the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system on any ...
The Mets and all of Major League Baseball will have to navigate a new way to determine balls and strikes in 2026. Starting on Opening Day, the automatic ball and strike (ABS) challenge system will be ...
PHOENIX –– When it comes to the new ball-strike challenge system being implemented in Major League Baseball this year, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts doesn’t yet have any hard-and-fast rules for his ...
Carlos Mendoza said the team would be aggressive this spring when it came to using the new automated ball-strike challenge system. They were aggressive again Monday, as Clay Holmes’ outing ended when ...
No more yelling about an egregious strike-three call or a ball four that touched the zone. Or at least, not as often. The start of spring training games this weekend also marks the beginning of the ...
Spring training games have begun as Major League Baseball's regular season creeps ever closer. The Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees had the honor of kicking off competitive baseball in ...
Steven Kwan has seen more balls called strikes against him than all but two hitters in baseball since 2022. Scott Marshall / Getty Images GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Steven Kwan watched a 3-0 fastball from Los ...
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