Major League Baseball's exhibition season gets underway Friday afternoon. Unlike most years, this round of spring training isn't just serving as a warm-up for the players, but rather will also serve ...

The ABS Challenge System was first utilized in MLB during spring training in 2025. | Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images MLB games will look different in spring ...

Beginning this season, teams will be granted at least two challenges of the home-plate umpire’s strike zone each game, as well as an additional challenge in extra innings, if their initial two have ...

TAMPA, Fla. – Ben Rice tapped his helmet and a moment later, the strike called against him was reversed to a ball. Testing MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike system during live batting practices at ...

MLB's Automated Ball-Strike challenge system is again part of spring training, but unlike last year, it will remain once the regular season starts. It's about to profoundly change baseball. K.C.

The robot umpires are here. Well, only kind of. MLB has a new ABS challenge system, and its implementation begins in Spring Training before being used throughout the regular season and postseason, too ...

PHOENIX — Flashing bleached hair under his cap as he settles in with his new team, Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz threw his first pitch of Thursday’s live bating practice session to Freddie Freeman. It was ...

Spring training games have begun as Major League Baseball's regular season creeps ever closer. The Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees had the honor of kicking off competitive baseball in ...

The Mets and all of Major League Baseball will have to navigate a new way to determine balls and strikes in 2026. Starting on Opening Day, the automatic ball and strike (ABS) challenge system will be ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Major League Baseball is changing … again. Amid an era that has already seen significant alterations to the sport, most of which have been received favorably by fans and players ...