With offense on the decline and strikeouts at an all-time high, Major League Baseball is looking into shrinking the strike zone, according to a Yahoo! Sports report. Any formal rules change would have ...

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 ...

A new strike zone could be on baseball's horizon and the old-fashioned intentional walk could be a thing of the past after both were agreed to by the competition committee at Major League Baseball's ...

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 ...

MLB fans got a taste of the automated balls & strikes (ABS) system during Spring Training 2025. Now, it’ll be coming to regular-season and postseason games in 2026. The league announced on September ...

For years, Major League Baseball has wrestled with the strike zone debate, and now the league is officially taking a step into the future. Beginning in 2026, MLB will roll out the ABS Challenge System ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Major League Baseball will introduce an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System beginning in the 2026 season, allowing players to contest umpire calls on balls and strikes for the ...

How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ...