Fantasy Baseball 2026: ABS Challenge System – How Strike-Zone Shrinkage Is Rewriting Fantasy Values

One month is not enough to conclude much in fantasy baseball, but we know the strike zone is smaller by about 11 percent on ...
Yahoo! Sports

ABS challenge system takeaways: What we've learned through 3 weeks of MLB play

It has been only three weeks, but Major League Baseball’s ABS challenge system has ushered in a whole new genre of statistics in a sport that was already known for the treasure trove of numbers and ...
The New York Times

ABS has shrunk the strike zone; walks are spiking as pitchers try to adjust

Pitchers are reckoning with a smaller, moving strike zone as a result of ABS, and walking more batters as a result. Frank Jansky / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The strike zone is baseball’s sacred ...
Sports Illustrated

There's a First Time for Everything: Tracking All of MLB's ABS Challenge Firsts

From the first-ever ABS challenge to the first ejection involving an ABS challenge, here are all of MLB's firsts involving the new balls-and-strikes arbiter. There’s a first time for everything, but ...
Gizmodo

Absolute Robin Is a Giant Goddamn Robot

DC’s Absolute universe launched an arms race of just how freakishly huge you could make a comic book character when it kicked things off with the impressively wide Absolute Batman himself, a unit of a ...
The New York Times

Some umps fear ABS is causing fans to judge them by near-impossible standards

The average miss of the 11 most accurate umps is 0.7 inches or less, according to tracking website Tap the Challenge. Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Most businesses would balk at creating a ...
MLB

Dingler goes 4-for-4 on ABS challenges: 'It's big to know the zone'

DETROIT -- The 0-2 slider from Keider Montero dropped in on Cardinals slugger Iván Herrera, leading off the fourth inning. The grid on the Peacock broadcast showed the pitch just off the outside ...
The Hollywood Reporter

With an Assist from ‘Absolute Batman’ and DC, the Comic Artist Superstar Rises Again

Nick Dragotta, Daniel Warren Johnson and others are bringing about a popularity and mania not seen since the heyday of Image Comics in the 1990s. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer At the end of January, ...