Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever since. Strike-zone judgment has been the subject of some untold number of ...

One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals' spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike ...

Spring training is traditionally a time of new beginnings, including this year's introduction of the automated ball-strike ...

A new automated system that allows MLB players to challenge ball and strike calls is being tested in spring training games. Opinions on the system, and its effect on the purity of the game, have been ...

Major League Baseball (MLB) is introducing robots to spring training this year on a trial basis in the form of the ABS (Alternate Ball-Strike System). ABS will peer over the home plate umpire’s ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Justin Verlander was on a minor-league rehab assignment when he got his first taste of the automated ball ...

For two years, the league went fully automated. Under this system, the Hawk-Eye technology would call every pitch, every time, feeding the call to the home plate umpire through an earpiece.

Major League Baseball is being dragged into the future, even as some players and fans kick and scream. Thirteen spring ...

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