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

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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 ...

Jeffery A. Salter/Sports Illustrated Umpire training requires serious attention to the rules. (That’s both the Official Baseball Rules and the separate yet equally dense Major League Baseball ...

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 ...