One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals' spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike system (ABS), unofficially known by some as robot umpires.

The controversial Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system is an unspoken contract between the only three people on the ...

How do Orioles feel about robot umps? They’re already thinking strategy. The league is testing out the ABS system this spring with an eye on potentially implementing it in future seasons ...

When Major League Baseball tested the ABS challenge system this spring, players and fans watched the animations on the scoreboard and assumed they were fully accurate.

Between replay review, automated balls and strikes and viral lowlights on social media, the work of baseball umpires has been transformed by technology. But none of that has deterred aspiring umpires.

MLB will use the automatic balls and strikes, or ABS, challenge system -- often referred to as robo-umps -- at the 2025 All-Star Game on Tuesday in Atlanta, a source familiar with the decision ...

The minor leagues began testing a full ABS system in 2021 before it reached the Triple-A level, one step below the majors, in 2022. This full system was what many called “ robot umps, ” where ...

MLB is using its automated strike zone system in the All-Star Game for the first time, giving teams limited challenges amid ongoing debate over robot umpires.

A spring training’s worth of the automated ball-strike challenge system: Are robot umps coming to MLB?

By Julia Andersen, CNN (CNN) — The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a spring training game against the ...

By Julia Andersen, CNN (CNN) — The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a spring training game against the ...