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MLB Using Robot Umpires: What To Know About ABS Challenge System
Major League Baseball has introduced several new rules in recent seasons, but perhaps the most significant one is being ...
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This could be baseball’s last season without ‘robot umpires’
Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.
Female umpire and former Hofstra softball star Jen Pawol works Yankees game behind the plate
Last spring the 48-year-old Pawol, who attended umpire school in 2015 and began umpiring in the minors in 2016, became the ...
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Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.
Batting Around: Do you like the ABS challenge system? Is it better or worse than fully automated umpires?
Throughout the offseason, the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty ...
Spring training update: Matt Waldron hurt, likely to miss start of season; Luis Arraez sizzles
Extra bases: Center fielder Jackson Merrill ran 90 feet with his back to the plate and made an over-the-shoulder basket catch ...
MLB's ABS challenge system arose in part because of players' concerns about umpire gambling
Major League Baseball fired umpire Pat Hoberg after it was revealed he shared a legal sportsbook account with a professional gambler. Hoberg appeal ...