The MLB has had its fair share of controversial umpire calls, especially over the past week. In Sunday's Yankees-Rays game, ...

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Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred ... relay a ball or strike call to an umpire in real time because players "prefer" the challenge system since it's a smaller change to how things currently operate ...

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MLB umpire Mark Ripperger is receiving praise for how he called a recent game. Ripperger was behind home plate for Thursday's game between the Kansas City Royals and the Minnesota Twins.

The Umpire Scorecards website, which uses MLB data from Baseball Savant to track ... the automated ball-strike challenge system in spring training and could implement it in official games next ...

The errors were reported by the Umpire Auditor over X and several fans caught up with the news. One of the main reasons why this was unexpected is because Chris Conroy is one of the veteran MLB ...

During spring training, MLB experimented with an ABS (automated ... wasn't going to be in place for the 2025 regular season. Umpire CB Bucknor probably lucked out there because Sunday would ...

For his sake, veteran MLB umpire John Bacon may want to avoid ... Although the league tested the ABS in spring training, that rule change didn’t carry over to the regular season.

Ho hum. But over the course of the somewhat-mundane proceedings of the game, MLB umpiring history was made. Home plate umpire Mark Ripperger on Thursday night called a perfect game, just the ...

The MLB has had its fair ... more of a spotlight on umpire errors, especially with the generally positive attitude towards ABS following its use in spring training. On Monday, a new stat dropped ...