Finnegan Schick is an attorney in Boston. A tradition as old as baseball is coming to an end. Major League Baseball announced this week it will be extending video review into the last stubbornly human ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...

There’s nothing going on in baseball this week, so as a diversion we’re going to take a tour of the greatest philosophical minds in recorded history, and ask the obvious question if one were to get ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

Is this the year baseball raises the strike zone? Is it the year the sport does away with the practice of lobbing four balls toward home plate to issue an intentional walk? Major League Baseball has ...

Major League Baseball’s decision to allow teams the opportunity to call for an automated review of an umpire’s ball and strike calls next season makes good sense. To those, such as Finnegan Schick, ...

Editor’s Note: The story has been updated to correct that the bottom of the zone is 27% of a batter’s height and to incorporate information about the mid-point of the plate requiring a pitch plot ...