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ABS challenge system: What’s working, what’s not? | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman deliberate over the new automated ball-strike system being tested in MLB spring training and discuss how it’s working within the league and for players.
What is ABS? Explaining MLB spring training challenge system
MLB will be testing an automatic balls and strikes challenge system this spring training. Here's how it works.
How MLB's ABS challenge system works in 2025 spring training, featuring Jahmai Jones
Detroit Tigers player Jahami Jones wins a challenge using the ABS system in spring training against New York Yankees on Feb. 23, 2025, in Tampa, Fla.
What is MLB’s ‘ABS Challenge System’? Inside baseball’s newest ‘robot umps’ technology
COMING SOON: The Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) presented by @TMobile will be used during Spring Training games for the first time ever. ABS has been tested in the minor leagues since 2021, and 2025 will be the first test with the Major League players. About 60% of… pic.twitter.com/8Nc91IBfyc
What is ABS? How MLB's ball-strike challenge system will work in spring training
ABS is MLB’s name for an automated strike zone — also known as robot umps. In a full ABS game, there will be a human umpire behind the plate, signaling the calls communicated through ABS. We won’t be seeing that full system in action this spring. Instead, teams will have a limited amount of challenges.
ABS challenge system latest MLB wrinkle after years of tests
An automated ball-strike challenge system is debuting in MLB's spring training this year, the latest development to come out of the league's testing partners, the Atlantic League and the Pioneer League.
MLB to Use ABS Challenge System in Spring Training; Strike Zone Explained in Photos
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MLB’s ABS Challenge System Is Awesome
The challenge system is being used in spring training games this season, but there are no plans yet for it to be implemented in the regular season. If I were Rob Manfred, I’d do everything in my power to get ABS in real games ASAP.
What is MLB's ABS System? know everything about newly experimented spring training challenge system
Each team will have two challenges per game to call into question ball or strike calls. If the challenge is upheld by the replay, the team retains its challenge.
Fans loved how MLB's new ABS challenge system exposed the umpire's terrible call in real time
As part of the ABS system being tested in 60% of spring training games, teams are allocated two challenges for balls and ...
MLB Fans Loved How ABS Challenge System Showed Ump How Badly He Missed a Call
Major League Baseball is trying something new this spring as they're allowing teams to challenge two ball and strike calls ...
Yankees use ABS challenge system to keep an inning going, then score 3 runs against Toronto
Changing one ball to a strike can completely alter an inning. Saturday was proof of that, when the New York Yankees used the ...
Twins get first taste of ball-strike challenge system with future of catcher value in flux
Pitch framing isn't going anywhere for a while, and soon catchers will likely add ball-strike challenges to their ...
Terry Francona Explains Why Reds Will Opt Out of MLB's ABS System Testing
Several of the Reds minor leaguers have prior experience with the ABS challenge system, which, along with full ABS (all balls ...
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First game with ABS coming today; Nats to host O's in exhibition finale
The Nationals’ third game of the Grapefruit League season today will feature a new wrinkle that wasn’t a part of their first two games: The ABS challenge system.ABS, which stands for “Automated Balls ...
Rays catcher Ben Rortvedt gives ABS challenge system an interesting try
The Rays got their first look during Friday’s exhibition opener at the automated ball-strike challenge system Major League ...
How Houston Astros view baseball's latest experiment: The automated ball-strike challenge system
It's not quite robo umpires but hitters and pitchers can challenge balls and strikes calls by umpires in certain stadiums ...