One month is not enough to conclude much in fantasy baseball, but we know the strike zone is smaller by about 11 percent on ...

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PHOENIX -- How influential can a successful ABS challenge be? Well, without Ozzie Albies successfully challenging a full-count pitch, the Braves might not have scored at all in what became an ...

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It took only a few days, but Major League Baseball has its first ABS system-related ejection. Minnesota Twins manager Derek Shelton was thrown out of their 8-6 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday ...

Major League Baseball's Automated Ball-Strike challenge system has become a main character in the young season as everyone in the league tries to figure out how to navigate this brave new world.

Just five days into the 2026 MLB season, it's clear that the new Automated Ball-Strike challenge system is already paying dividends. The Athletic's Johnny Flores Jr. provided a list of umpires with ...

José Caballero, pictured hitting a single in the second inning, made the first challenge of the ABS era in the fourth inning, but the strike call was upheld. Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images SAN ...

Major League Baseball’s new era arrived faster than expected. José Caballero became the first player in MLB history to use the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system during a regular-season game ...

Robo-umps have arrived. Kinda. Beginning this season, Major League Baseball will use the ABS (short for automated balls and strikes) challenge system, so it's not full robo-umps, but there is now a ...

From the moment MLB began testing an automated strike zone in the minor leagues, its eventual arrival to regular season MLB games was an inevitability. And that time has finally arrived. After testing ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...