The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs played the first spring training game of 2025 on Thursday and debuted some new technology in the process. Thursday's Cactus League opener, a 12-4 Cubs win, saw ...

PHOENIX — For more than 150 years, the game of baseball has relied on humans behind home plate to call balls and strikes. This spring, for the first time in Major League history, players will be able ...

Major League Baseball (MLB) will test the use of robot umpires as part of a challenge system during Spring training next year, with the aim of implementing the system in the 2026 regular season. The ...

When and how should you challenge a client? This question has always intrigued me, as it’s pivotal in coaching yet complex to teach and often learned through experience. A poorly timed or awkwardly ...

MLB will be using robot umpires in spring training this year / Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment ...

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a spring training game against the Boston Red Sox last week – so ...

The ABS operator sits in the press box at LECOM Park during a spring training game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies. / Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK ...