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Next season, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is hoping to roll out the automated ball-strike challenge system league-wide — a ...

Nevertheless, players interviewed about this change say the strike zone feels noticeably smaller. The Athletic polled 15 MLB players, as well as more than a dozen coaches, executives and analysts ...

There was a good chance that Ben Lubeski wouldn’t pitch this season for the East Lyme Little League baseball majors (10-12) team. Lubeski was shut down after he suffered a fracture in the growth plate ...

Challenge System will take its next measured step toward regular-season implementation when it is used in the All-Star Game.

Shrinking the zone was occasionally mentioned as a Hail Mary solution while the offense went kaput throughout the 2010s and into the 2020s, but it's now happening in 2025. And the heck of it is ...

Despite how difficult hitting has become, pitchers and catchers are complaining about smaller strike zones. What gives?

What is ABS? ABS is MLB's name for an automated strike zone -- also known as robot umps. In a full ABS game, there will be a human umpire behind the plate, signaling the calls communicated through ...

The buffer zone has now shrunk to ¾ of an inch — effectively pushing umpires to call their zones tighter. “The rulebook strike zone has not changed and we have not instructed umpires to call ...

Beginning Thursday, the automated ball and strike system will allow players to challenge umpires’ calls. If all goes well, the system could debut in regular season games as soon as next year.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. successfully challenged a called third strike using the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system during a spring training game.

February 19 - A tap of the cap or helmet has new meaning in 2025 spring training games. In more than 55 percent of spring training games over the next six weeks, Major League Baseball is employing ...