Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Quinn Wolcott knows what we're talking about. He was the first base ump in Tuesday's Angels - Rangers game and he had one of ...

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. Starting in ...

Though that was once largely considered out of the bounds of possibility, MLB games officiated by so-called “robot umpires” are now closer to reality than ever before. Starting this week ...

Major League Baseball is introducing an Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) robot program in spring training, allowing teams the ...

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 ...

The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's getting rolled out for the first time in the big leagues during spring training.

It's only a matter of time until the robot umpires are implemented on a day-to-day basis in MLB. With there being tons of fan ...

This goes even for the highly trained eyes of major-league umpires. The human element is for players on the field, not the fair adjudication of the game. The challenge system is far better than ...

Apr 30, 2023; Mexico City, Mexico; Home plate umpire Pat Hoberg (31) calls an out in the fifth inning during a MLB World Tour game between the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants at ...

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.