Pawol last year became the first woman to umpire a big league spring training game since 2007, but did not receive a regular-season call-up.

Five new umpires will be working their first full season as Major League crew members in 2025. MLB announced the promotion of ...

Major League Baseball today announced that three new umpires have been promoted to the full-time Major League staff, joining two other hires that occurred in 2024. The newest members promoted in 2025 ...

The Facebook parent is entering the competitive field of humanoid robotics, joining rivals such as Nvidia-backed Figure AI ...

Meta Platforms Inc., after pushing into augmented reality and artificial intelligence, has identified its next big bet: ...

NEW YORK — 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 staff last ...

Human umpires will still be making the original call on balls and strikes. But teams will now be allowed to challenge those ...

The guys discuss the betting story about MLB umpire Pat Hoberg being fired for violation the league's gambling rules.

The veteran umpire shared a sports wagering account with a professional poker player who used the account to place bets on ...

The split contract sees La Sorsa land a pro-rated $780,000 salary for any time he spends on the MLB side and $180,000 in the minor leagues. The Nationals claimed La Sorsa off waivers in June of ...

237 with a subpar walk rate of 5.1%. He had a whiff rate near 30% and an enormous out-of-zone swing rate of 41.4%, which was the sixth-highest in all of MLB (min. 400 PA). Those suboptimal metrics ...

‘Science may make a mechanical man,” declared Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire Bill McGowen in 1938, “but it will never turn out an umpire.” Sorry ...