Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

Spring training this year has featured another ... is it still really baseball? Umpires have often relished their near-dictatorial authority and the built-in antagonism they provoke from players ...

The Opening Day of the MLB 2025 arrived with all the excitement we anticipated, but also with an unpleasant surprise: the ...

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) ...

NEW YORK — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers. Major League Baseball ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!