Dodgers vs. Cubs: 6 takeaways from the first games of spring training 2025
With the Tokyo Series to open the 2025 MLB season approaching in mid-March, the Cubs and Dodgers got a head start on spring ...
Terry Francona telling Reds veterans they can ignore MLB’s ball-strike challenge experiment
Reds manager Terry Francona doesn’t see the point of asking his veteran players to utilize the experimental ABS system during ...
Terry Francona has 1 simple reason for banning the Reds from ball-strike challenge system in spring training
The Reds are one of a handful of teams with an automatic ball-strike system in spring training, but their manager won’t let them use it.
Cardinals using spring games to strategize review of called balls and strikes
That Crooks, rather than his pitchers, would be the one to challenge a call on the defensive side of the ball is no accident.
Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition ...
SF Giants’ Lee singles, flashes leather in first game in nine months
Huff not only hit the Giants’ first home run of Cactus League play — a 422-foot no-doubter to center field — but he became ...
Players 1, umpires 0: Cubs hurler Cody Poteet makes first ABS challenge in spring training and wins
Chicago Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet believed the 95 mph fastball he threw to Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy was in the strike zone. Plate umpire Tony Randazzo disagreed and called it a ball.
Spring training in Florida has returned! Are robot umpires here to stay? Here's what to know
It's time once again for the Grapefruit League! MLB spring training in Florida includes a strike zone challenge system in 2025. Here's what to know.
Reds manager Francona wants veteran players to ignore ABS test run
Francona sounds more interested in preparing the Reds for the season — his first as their manager — than helping add more ...
Yankees use ABS challenge system to keep an inning going, then score 3 runs against Toronto
Saturday was proof of that, when the New York Yankees used the Automated Ball-Strike System to turn a strikeout into a walk, then went on to score three runs in the top of the sixth against Toronto.
Players praise accuracy of MLB’s ABS challenge system: The week in baseball
ABS has arrived at Goodyear Ballpark where the Guardians and Reds play their Cactus League home games this spring. It was on ...