In this year’s baseball spring training, the new Automated Ball-Strike System is helping settle challenges to home plate ...
Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.
The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's getting rolled out for the first time in the big leagues during spring training.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in ...
Major League Baseball fired umpire Pat Hoberg after it was revealed he shared a legal sportsbook account with a professional gambler. Hoberg appeal ...
Last spring the 48-year-old Pawol, who attended umpire school in 2015 and began umpiring in the minors in 2016, became the ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit five years ago, Phil Levesque was selected to become an umpire for the Little League World ...
He once took over a Babe Ruth team that no other coach wanted because its players were caught smoking and drinking, his ...
ESSEX JUNCTION — Northern Vermont Baseball Umpires Association is providing free training for individuals looking to learn ...