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Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever ...

If you have tuned in for any of the spring training games thus far, you've probably noticed that MLB has started testing an automated strike zone. And the best part about the system may be that ...

Batters, pitchers and catchers can challenge a home plate umpire’s ball or strike call. Powered by Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology, the automated ball-strike system replays the pitch trajectory to ...

Home plate umpires tasked with calling balls and strikes know the strike zone parameters in theory, but they often fall short of making perfect calls because, well, they’re human. Past research ...

Fan feedback will also be a thing this spring. MLB will be paying close attention to how fans react to seeing umpires have actual strike calls overturned in actual games played by actual major ...

Picture Shohei Ohtani suddenly squatting low, or Juan Soto suddenly standing tall, each of which would change the dynamics between what umpires call by the book and what the system would call ...

The robot ump’s replay showed that it was low. So low that, had it been called a strike, someone would have written that the human umpire should have his eyes checked and be fired, and not in that ...

“Everybody knows that. The umpires call everything (a strike). We want to walk too. But they don’t help us. They help the pitchers. This year I am coming to take a lot of walks. Let’s see if ...