MLB robot umpires get the green light: What to know about ABS challenge system that starts in 2026

Major League Baseball's competition committee approved the automated strike zone challenge system for the 2026 season on ...
Yahoo! Sports

MLB debuts robot ump challenge system at Dodgers-Cubs spring training opener

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs played the first spring training game of 2025 on Thursday and debuted some new technology in the process. Thursday's Cactus League opener, a 12-4 Cubs win, saw ...
Opinion

RandBall: MLB’s ‘robot umpire’ challenge system is the wrong choice

Major League Baseball will make its initial foray next season into “robot umpires,” a rather hilarious term that conjures up images of Star Wars droids barking out ball and strike calls but is in ...
Sports Illustrated

MLB Unveils New Challenge System Involving Robot Umpires for Spring Training

MLB will be using robot umpires in spring training this year / Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment ...
MassLive

MLB to use robot challenge system during All-Star Game (report)

Umpires will still call balls and strikes at the upcoming MLB All-Star game in Atlanta, but they will get some help from a robotic eye in the sky. The automatic balls and strikes (ABS) challenge ...

Robot Umps Challenge System Approved For MLB in 2026

Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee has approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major leagues in 2026.
AOL

MLB plans to use robot umpire challenge system in All-Star Game next week

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball plans to use its robot umpire technology for ball-strike challenges in Tuesday's All-Star Game at Atlanta, another step toward possible regular-season use next ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs not dedicating time to MLB's robot-ump challenge system: 'It's a test for some future, unknown thing'

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KGW8

Raleigh shines in All-Star debut, impresses with robot umpire challenge

ATLANTA — Cal Raleigh was just as successful with the first robot umpire All-Star challenge as he was in the Home Run Derby. Seattle's catcher signaled for an appeal to the Automated Ball-Strike ...
The New York Times

Robot umps are here: What MLB players need to know to navigate ABS this spring

It was pitchers and catchers who reported to spring training last week. Been there, done that. But you know who reports to spring training this week who has never been or done any of this? Get ready.
Staten Island Advance

First robot challenge in Yankees' game was comical thanks to Rays’ Ben Rortvedt

TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees fans had to like the first inning of Friday’s first Grapefruit League with the two former MVPs brought in during the offseason getting hits in their first at-bats wearing ...