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 ...

Well, maybe the umpires won't like it too much because now they get to see in front of everyone if they missed a call. That happened during Sunday's Padres-Dodgers game when Los Angeles' Andy ...

The same can be said about umpires and the league itself this year. MLB is testing ABS – otherwise ... And he wants those same bad calls to go in his favor. Had the pitch Scherzer challenged ...

It didn't take long for the ABS system to prove human umpires ... MLB can abandon it altogether. For now, though, it's smart for the league to use every weird piece of tech to its advantage to ...

That applies to umpires too, apparently, as MLB ump Quinn Wolcott had an internal dialogue play out in the middle of a call. During Tuesday's Cactus League game between the Angels and Rangers ...

Batters, pitchers and catchers can challenge a home plate umpire ... bad calls. By allowing teams to correct the most disputed calls without eliminating the human element of umpiring, MLB ...

Read full article: Wednesday’s cold front, rain chances do more bad than ... which the human umpire makes each original call. Data from the spring training test could cause MLB to make ...