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Jazz Chisholm makes disrespectful move with home plate umpire
New York Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm made a totally disrespectful move toward a home plate umpire in Tuesday’s spring ...
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Robot umpires getting first spring training test
which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each ...
Yankees’ Aaron Boone rails against ‘frivolous’ ABS challenges: ‘I do not like this’
MLB has implemented an automated ball-strike, or ABS, challenge system this spring, giving players the opportunity to contest ...
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When Algorithms Take the Field
Players’ and managers’ efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike zone have long been a part of the 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 getting first spring training test
Home plate umpire Jen Pawol calls a strike during the third inning of a March 10, 2024, spring training game between the Marlins and Astros in West Palm Beach, Fla. Royals catcher Freddy Fermin ...
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Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
Data from the spring training test could cause ... each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ear buds and would hear “ball ...