When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
Baseball fans tuning into spring training games may have noticed another new wrinkle in a sport that’s experienced a host of ...
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This could be baseball’s last season without ‘robot umpires’
Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.
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Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes ...
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MLB's ABS challenge system arose in part because of players' concerns about umpire gambling
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 ...
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Umpire Mike Muchlinski hilariously made fun of himself after the Padres’ failed ball-strike challenge
While MLB's ABS challenge system (automated balls and strikes) is still in the testing phase this spring training, we're already seeing how umpires respond to the system on the field. And credit ...