Spring training is a place where players can work out some rust and get ready for the long season ahead. But they aren't the ...

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Training always brings a sense of renewal, a fresh start, a clean slate where every team, no matter how last season ended, ...

Thursday's Cactus League opener, a 12-4 Cubs win, saw the first use of an automated ball-strike challenge system, commonly known as a "robot ump," between MLB teams. The Cubs used the challenge ...

For the first time since MLB began testing it in the independent Atlantic League six years ago, an automated ball and strike system — robo-ump, colloquially — will be in place for a major ...

(Grapefruit League action commences Friday.) This spring training will introduce a new element to the action: for the first time, MLB will employ the automated ball-strike system (ABS for short ...

MLB has tested the challenge system — as well as a full automated ball/strike system, in which the plate umpire merely signals what the computer called — in the minors in recent years. So ...

PHOENIX — The robo ump could kill K-Zone ... way we currently do it with the challenge system,” said Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice president for baseball operations, at a press ...