MLB is introducing a new balls-strikes challenge system for 2026.

Diamondbacks players have the opportunity to challenge balls and strikes in spring training again, only this time, they will ...

Mike Shildt knows better than to stand in the way of progress. In the case of the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system approved for the 2026 season on Tuesday by Major League Baseball’s joint ...

The Joint Competition Committee last September voted to bring the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile, to the big leagues in 2026 following several years of ...

At long last, player protest with ball or strike calls can be handled with something other than ineffectual arguing. Beginning with the 2026 MLB season, players will have the power to appeal the ...

NEW YORK — Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the ...

Jimmy Rollins says the MLB should "never" adopt full-time robot umps ... telling TMZ Sports this week the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System is as far as the league should take things. We caught ...

Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major ...

For the first time in MLB history, balls and strikes will be able to be challenged starting in the 2026 regular season. The Automated Balls/Strikes (ABS) Challenge System, which was featured during ...

NEW YORK -- Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. On Tuesday, Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the ...

The New York Yankees have spent much of the 2025 season chasing October, but this week they found themselves debating a different kind of opponent: the strike zone itself. Major League Baseball has ...

Kansas City Royals first base coach Damon Hollins and umpire Chris Guccione look on as the results of a Automated Ball Strike (ABS) replay challenge by Texas Rangers catcher Chad Wallach are shown on ...