Major League Baseball almost certainly won't have robot umpires calling balls and strikes in 2025. Commissioner Rob Manfred all but confirmed that at a press conference on Thursday, disappointing ...

Commissioner Rob Manfred said the Automated Balls-Strike System could be implemented in MLB as early as 2026. / Brett Davis-Imagn Images Tuesday's MLB All-Star Game will feature a change that baseball ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. "They're absolutely good for baseball," Manfred said ...

ATLANTA — Tarik Skubal views the strike zone differently than robot umpires. “I have this thing where I think everything is a strike until the umpire calls it a ball,” Detroit’s AL Cy Young Award ...

An automated ball-strike system (ABS), informally known as "robot umps," will be tested during this coming spring training, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed again on Wednesday ...