Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

One of the things that the league has been testing this year is a robotic system to call balls and strikes. The Automated Ball-Strike System, which is based on the same technology used for line ...

Spring training is traditionally a time of new beginnings, including this year's introduction of the automated ball-strike system in spring games. It's a meld of robotic precision and human ...

The league has another potential win on its hands with the automated ball-strike system (ABS). The challenge system is being used in spring training games this season, but there are no plans yet ...

And this success has given the game a certain amount of confidence, even swagger, as it considers its latest radical experiment: the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system, or ABS for short.

Replay technology has been part of Major League Baseball for over 15 years ago now, but the league’s ball-strike challenge experiment is a step too far for one future Hall of Famer. Max Scherzer ...