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SAN FRANCISCO — Before the automated ball-strike system came into play in real games that counted, the Yankees spent plenty of mornings this spring talking about it. Access the Yankees beat like never ...

Overreaction runs rampant in fantasy baseball in early April. When a player hits 2 HR in a game, he is the next coming of Babe Ruth. A sparsely-known pitcher spins a beautiful outing and he has ...

One week into the MLB season, the ABS challenge system is proving effective and adding drama while quietly fixing missed calls. Baseball has spent the better part of the last decade trying to drag ...

What if I told you that the strike zone written in the MLB rulebook isn't the strike zone that the ABS challenge system uses to determine a ball and a strike? Well, that'd be the truth. On Monday ...

BALTIMORE - We may have found a flaw in the Rangers’ new team-first approach to hitting. They are too polite. Nobody, it seems, wants to be the guy to waste an ABS challenge that could be saved for ...

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SEATTLE -- The New York Yankees won all five of their challenges utilizing the automated ball-strike system during Monday night's 2-1 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Though manager Aaron Boone would ...

The automated ball-strike (ABS) system has been implemented in Major League Baseball this year and here, on just the fifth day of the regular season, we have our first ABS-related ejection. Twins ...

Automated Balls and Strikes dramatically changed the outcome of Thursday’s 17-2 rout of the Diamondbacks by the Braves. Second baseman Ozzie Albies successfully challenged the seventh pitch of his ...

SEATTLE — One of the biggest concerns entering the automated ball-strike system era was whether it would eliminate an advantage for teams that were the strongest at framing pitches. At least in the ...

Major League Baseball's Automated Ball-Strike challenge system has become a main character in the young season as everyone in the league tries to figure out how to navigate this brave new world.