Major League Baseball has been fine-tuning two different options for calling balls and strikes for the past few years, with the hopes of implementing one system ...

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider wasn't happy with home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez's strike zone following a 4-3 ...

Working behind the plate in the Rockies' 12-5 win over the Athletics, Bucknor missed 15 ball-strike calls with four ...

After taking the first three games of their series against the Boston Red Sox, the Blue Jays had the rare opportunity to ...

After fans and MLB clubs got an up-close look at ABS during Spring Training, how do you feel about the system? Vote now in ...

The Toronto Blue Jays (8-6) enjoyed a fruitful road trip to Fenway Park, but they leave with a bitter taste in their mouth ...

Another day, another CB Bucknor Special behind the plate. If you tuned into Sunday’s Rockies-A’s game hoping for a fair fight, you got a 12-5 Colorado ...

By the letter of the law, Max Meyer’s full-count pitch to Brett Baty in the fifth inning Wednesday probably didn’t clip the ...

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, also, yes.

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

10.9% of called pitches in the strike zone were ruled balls and 6.3% of called pitches outside of the strike zone were ruled strikes, according to MLB Statcast. Challenges averaged 4.1 per game. The ...