MLB commissioner Rob Manfred cited a unique “unscientific system” that makes him think the top level of baseball is ready for strike zone replay. Talking to Evan Drellich of The Athletic ...

The league expanded the replay challenge rules ... about the umpires' struggles with accurately calling the strike zone, MLB is testing its compromise to "robot umps" for the first time this ...

Major League Baseball may be inching closer to using an automated strike zone. On Tuesday during his ... The league has already embraced replay reviews for calls on the field, a ball-strike ...

Instant replay ... This would likely be the system Major League Baseball would adopt. However, there is still always the possibility that the automated strike zone only remains in the minors.

Viewers of broadcast feeds will also see the same replay, according to MLB, which said its research revealed that a strike zone challenge typically added 17 seconds to a game. When used during ...

For the first time in MLB, ball-tracking technology is making some ball-strike decisions during ... 32 seconds to complete, the replay showed the pitch missed the zone badly, perhaps by six ...

It's a meld of robotic precision and human oversight, a compromise allowing a limited number of challenges per game to ensure accuracy in the strike zone ... coming to the MLB in 2026, Jerry ...

MLB tested out an automated strike zone during the Arizona Fall ... flight and whether it was in the automated strike zone. It looks like a replay you’d see during a game you’re watching ...

Once a call has been challenged, an automated replay system ... like that idea. The MLB says it conducted polls of fans, players and coaches, and a fully automated strike zone was consistently ...