It’s not just the challenges that will be changing baseball forever. Next season, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is hoping to roll out the automated ball-strike challenge system league-wide — a rule ...

Major League Baseball has a new strike zone in 2025, and the Seattle Mariners should be livid and excited about it. This will make more sense in just a minute, but the first thing to know is that it ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article and an accompanying chart misstated the dimensions of the “buffer zone” used to evaluate umpires before this year. That buffer zone should have been ...

MLB fans got a taste of the automated balls & strikes (ABS) system during Spring Training 2025. Now, it’ll be coming to regular-season and postseason games in 2026. The league announced on September ...

SEATTLE — The current MLB strike zone has been in place since 1996. The zone itself has remained unchanged for a generation, but there have been adjustments to rules and protocols that have changed ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...