Is this the year baseball raises the strike zone? Is it the year the sport does away with the practice of lobbing four balls toward home plate to issue an intentional walk? Major League Baseball has ...

Finnegan Schick is an attorney in Boston. A tradition as old as baseball is coming to an end. Major League Baseball announced this week it will be extending video review into the last stubbornly human ...

During the 2026 season, Major League Baseball will adopt a new strike zone review process that combines human umpiring with technology. The league announced that robot umpires, officially called the ...

In a development that many Major League Baseball fans have been calling for for a long while, it was officially announced that the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System will be implemented for the ...

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 ...

October 28 - Major League Baseball will begin testing a strike zone challenge system next year at spring training, commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed Monday. Manfred previously said the automated ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In a surprising twist that baseball purists might never have predicted, many Major League Baseball umpires have gone from resisting automated strike zones to actively embracing them.

There’s nothing going on in baseball this week, so as a diversion we’re going to take a tour of the greatest philosophical minds in recorded history, and ask the obvious question if one were to get ...

On Sunday, the Cincinnati Reds had the displeasure of going against a red-hot Milwaukee Brewers team that has been the best team in baseball since the All-Star break. And unfortunately, they also had ...