During Tuesday's Cactus League game between the Angels and Rangers, outfielder Wyatt Langford hit a slow, bouncing grounder ...

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.

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez and Alex MacKay were hired Friday as fulltime major league umpires and Major League Baseball said Dan Merzel and Nate Tomlinson had been added to the ...

Bob Nightengale and Gabe Lacques share feedback from players and managers regarding robot umpires in this year's Spring ...

If they challenge, the pitch graphic appears on the scoreboard and broadcast, and the umpire updates the count. The MLB says this takes about 17 seconds. The MLB has been testing ABS challenges in ...

It didn't take long for the ABS system to prove human umpires wrong during MLB's first spring training game of 2025. What if I told you there was once a day when human umpires ruled all?

You try to play with the umpires, you don't play against them." Abbott is hardly alone on this, particularly with automated ball and strikes (ABS) now on MLB's horizon. But the time to get ...

MLB will be using robot umpires in spring training this year / Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment ...