CLEVELAND, Ohio — A seismic shift is coming to Major League Baseball in 2026, and few players will feel the tremors more intensely than Guardians catcher Austin Hedges. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

A long-awaited rule change is set to transform Major League Baseball games beginning next season. On Tuesday, the MLB Joint Competition Committee voted to approve the implementation of the Automated ...

During spring training this year, Major League Baseball used a challenge system for balls and strikes based on ABS (automated ball-strike system). For those unaware, ABS uses a Hawk-Eye camera that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Robot umpires have not yet entered the chat, but their arrival is imminent. Tuesday’s announcement that Major League Baseball will fully adopt an automated ball-strike (ABS) ...

The automatic balls and strikes (ABS) challenge system has been tested in Triple-A for a couple of seasons. It was also tested in spring training this year. Now it's taking center stage in MLB's ...

ATLANTA -- The ABS system was used for the first time in an MLB All-Star Game Tuesday and it worked beautifully, hopefully illustrating to any naysayers out there just how good this system is for the ...

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 Boston Red Sox last week – so ...

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar welcomed the news that MLB’s automated ball-strike (ABS) system will be fully implemented in 2026. Known as one of the league’s most disciplined hitters, ...

The future is officially coming to MLB next year. The league announced on Tuesday that an Automated Ball Strike (ABS) system will be implemented for the 2026 season and provided the rules for how the ...