While the Toronto Blue Jays have captured the imagination of Canadian baseball fans by progressing to this year’s American League Championship Series, another Canada-based Major League Baseball team, ...

MLB will implement the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System permanently in 2026. Fans and managers, including Terry Francona, generally support the ABS after testing it. The system allows ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In a surprising twist that baseball purists might never have predicted, many Major League Baseball umpires have gone from resisting automated strike zones to actively embracing them.

This creates a fascinating dilemma. The runner successfully steals second base, but the catcher doesn’t attempt a throw because he believes the inning is over with the called third strike. If the ...

With the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system in line to be fully integrated in Major League games at the start of next season, it will mark the biggest rule change the sport has seen since ...

Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona admitted that he’s not worried about Major League Baseball’s upcoming shift to an automated ball-strike system. The league announced in September that the 2026 ...