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MLB to Use ABS Challenge System in Spring Training

USA Today · 2d

What is ABS? How MLB's ball-strike challenge system will work in spring training

ABS is MLB’s name for an automated strike zone — also known as robot umps. In a full ABS game, there will be a human umpire behind the plate, signaling the calls communicated through ABS. We won’t be seeing that full system in action this spring. Instead, teams will have a limited amount of challenges.

Bleacher Report · 3d

MLB to Use ABS Challenge System in Spring Training; Strike Zone Explained in Photos

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Kansas City Star on MSN · 1d

What is MLB’s ‘ABS Challenge System’? Inside baseball’s newest ‘robot umps’ technology

COMING SOON: The Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) presented by @TMobile will be used during Spring Training games for the first time ever. ABS has been tested in the minor leagues since 2021, and 2025 will be the first test with the Major League players. About 60% of… pic.twitter.com/8Nc91IBfyc

Terry Francona says Reds will opt out of ABS testing

Sports Illustrated on MSN · 1d

Terry Francona Explains Why Reds Will Opt Out of MLB's ABS System Testing

Several of the Reds minor leaguers have prior experience with the ABS challenge system, which, along with full ABS (all balls and strikes automated) was tested at the Double and Triple-A levels in '23 and '24. By the end of '24, full ABS was dropped in favor of the happy middle ground, the ABS challenge system.

New York Post on MSN · 13h

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 spring training.

ESPN on MSN · 1d

Terry Francona asks Reds veterans not to use ABS challenges

Reds manager Terry Francona plans to opt out of elective participation in the automated ball-strike challenge trial during spring training but is willing to let Cincinnati's minor league players accustomed to the procedure use challenges.

14hon MSN

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 ...

14h

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, ...

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