MLB baseball season is underway, and while the teams on the field are competing to get to the World Series in October, there ...

A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred touched on hot topics like robot umpires, torpedo bats and possible expansion in an interview Q&A published by The New York Times on Sunday. Manfred spoke positively ...

The 2025 MLB season is just a few days old but its safe ... The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're awarded ...

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 ...

Manfred did note MLB umpires are "more receptive" to the robot-style system if it were to be adopted, but the next round of collective bargaining negotiations with the players will likely ...

Roger Bossard has been with the White Sox since 1967 and has been head groundskeeper since 1983. Bossard -- nicknamed the ...

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

Since veteran major-league umpires were told by the league just to call their normal zone, to get ready for a season without ABS, players found themselves living in a world with two different stri ...