Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

The at-bat got some viral attention when it was shared by Jomboy Media in a post on X, which pointed out that even the ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!

On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...

Apr 30, 2023; Mexico City, Mexico; Home plate umpire Pat Hoberg (31) calls an out in the fifth inning during a MLB World Tour game between the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants at ...

MLB made a huge push towards the future with ... who had some mixed feelings about the robot umpires. "I like it as a hitter," said Realmuto. "I don't really like it as a catcher as much, just ...

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.

This goes even for the highly trained eyes of major-league umpires. The human element is for players on the field, not the fair adjudication of the game. The challenge system is far better than ...

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 ...