NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be ...

In a surprising twist that baseball purists might never have predicted, many Major League Baseball umpires have gone from resisting automated strike zones to actively embracing them. The reason?

NEW YORK – Will there be fewer of Aaron Boone’s famous tirades about the strike zone in 2026? Well, maybe. On Tuesday, MLB’s Joint Competition Committee adopted the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

Finnegan Schick is an attorney in Boston. A tradition as old as baseball is coming to an end. Major League Baseball announced this week it will be extending video review into the last stubbornly human ...

Major League Baseball's competition committee approved the automated strike zone challenge system for the 2026 season on Tuesday, the league announced. The 11-person committee consists of six owners, ...

Here's what to know about MLB's robot umps. How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the ...

A new strike zone could be on baseball's horizon and the old-fashioned intentional walk could be a thing of the past after both were agreed to by the competition committee at Major League Baseball's ...

Editor’s Note: The story has been updated to correct that the bottom of the zone is 27% of a batter’s height and to incorporate information about the mid-point of the plate requiring a pitch plot ...

Is this the year baseball raises the strike zone? Is it the year the sport does away with the practice of lobbing four balls toward home plate to issue an intentional walk? Major League Baseball has ...