With a new Major League Baseball season here, a major change will play a unique role in how the year progresses. Coming to the majors this season is the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, or ABS ...

After a year of trying it out in the minor league, the MLB is bringing a major change to how its umpires officiate. This 2026 season, an automatic ball-strike system, or ABS, will be implemented.

The Mets and all of Major League Baseball will have to navigate a new way to determine balls and strikes in 2026. Starting on Opening Day, the automatic ball and strike (ABS) challenge system will be ...

MLB home plate umpires missing calls behind the dish is as frustrating an event as any for fans, players and managers to deal with. With that, having an automated balls and strikes (ABS) system in ...

Fans might love it. Players might eventually learn to love it (if they do not already). But umpires are going to hate Major League Baseball's new ABS challenge system for balls and strikes. At least ...

With Opening Day less than two weeks away (March 26), the Red Sox are getting the hang of the Automatic Ball-Strike system, which officially became a part of Major League Baseball at the start of ...

MLB has put in place a lot of rule changes over the last six years. There’s the automatic runner in extra innings, but only a small percentage of games go into extra innings. The pitch clock changed ...