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15 big name MLB free agents still available as spring training opens (including Anthony Rizzo!)
Merrifield bounced around the NL East last season with the Phillies and Braves while his batting average took a nosedive. After hitting .272 in his last full year with the Blue Jays in 2023, the 36-year-old batted .199 in 95 games with Philadelphia, then improved to .248 over 42 games in Atlanta.
MLB Unveils New Challenge System Involving Robot Umpires for Spring Training
This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment with ABS, the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, to ensure the home plate umpire gets as many ball and strike calls correct as possible. On Thursday, the league announced how exactly this new challenge system will unfold.
What is ABS? Explaining MLB spring training challenge system
MLB will be testing an automatic balls and strikes challenge system this spring training. Here's how it works.
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.
Robot umpires are getting their first MLB test during spring training
A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues.
Cubs' Cody Poteet makes first ABS challenge in spring training and wins
Cody Poteet successfully challenged a fastball he threw in the Cubs' spring training opener with MLB's Automated Ball-Strike System.
Phillies announce what’s new for the 2025 Spring Training Experience at BayCare Ballpark
With their spring training home opener just three days away, the Phillies are announcing an exciting new lineup of food, fashion and fandom that will be part of the 2025 spring training experience at BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater,
MLB will test robo-umpires in spring training games starting this week
Major League Baseball this week will begin testing an automated system that will keep count of balls and strikes. The tests will take place during spring training and could be rolled into regular season play in 2026.
MLB to launch pre-season testing of automated ball-strike calls
Major League Baseball will begin pre-season testing of an automated system to allow challenges of ball-strike calls on Thursday with the technology backstopping home plate umpires in about 60% of
Detroit Tigers Unexpected Prospect Continues To Draw Praise in Spring Training
The Detroit Tigers are well underway in their spring camp, and there's an interesting development beginning to play out in ...
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Post-workout notes from Day 8 of Orioles spring training
Because he didn’t play winter ball, Orioles pitcher Albert Suárez is in the best shape of his life.He really means it.Suárez ...
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Phillies Announce What’s New in Food and Fashion for the 2025 Spring Training Experience at BayCare Ballpark
With their spring training home opener just three days away, the Phillies are announcing an exciting new lineup of food, ...
Jorge Polanco Takes Swings at Seattle Mariners Spring Training After Offseason Surgery
Polanco had knee surgery this offseason and returned to the Mariners on a one-year deal. After questions about how healthy he ...
Dodgers pitcher takes 106-mph line drive to head in scary spring training moment
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Bobby Miller was hit in the head with a 106-mph line drive in the team's first spring training ...