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 ...

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

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 ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed. Spring training this year has featured another seismic twist: the chance for ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!

Wonder how the new Automated Ball-Strike System fared during Spring Training? Well, wonder no more. According to data ...

Veteran umpire Laz Diaz threw Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Merrill Kelly and manager Torey Lovullo out of Tuesday’s 4-3 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says robot umpires could be used as early as the 2026 regular season but feedback from players and teams needs to be gathered and analyzed before a decision is made.

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