The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system is being tested in just over half of the scheduled Grapefruit and Cactus ...

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.

Using the automated ball-strike system (ABS), teams will have the option to challenge ball-strike calls in the majority of spring training games. The league saw the challenge system as a middle ...

Last season saw further experimentation, with Triple-A games featuring a different approach to ABS depending on the day of the week. Triple-A (and Florida State League contests hosted at stadiums ...

We’ve never lived in a world in which major-league spring training games had balls and strikes called by robot umps, otherwise known as the Automated Ball-Strike system (ABS). But it’ll happen ...

PHOENIX -- Thirteen spring stadiums and over 60% of Cactus and Grapefruit League games will feature an automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system as MLB continues to inch closer to using it ...

No one is going to rush to any conclusions quite yet, with this being the first game of the spring and with ABS being tested in 13 different ballparks in Arizona and Florida. Teams are permitted ...

will also have games with ABS challenge system in place. The average number of spring games per team throughout MLB that will use ABS is 21 in the Cactus League and 19 in the Grapefruit League.

The robot umpires will be implemented for their spring games. OK, not exactly robots parked behind the catcher, but ABS – the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge system. The Tigers will be one of 13 ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – 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.