"The Automated Ball-Strike (A.B.S.) challenge system, known informally as the robot ump, is coming to your local major league ballpark on Opening Day in 2026."
An over-the-top clickbait headline to promote the author's new book. The important clarification appears in paragraph 9 of the article:
"the challenge system that will be introduced next year, which gives each team two chances per nine innings to ask for an automated second guess"
Someday, fully-automated balls-and-strikes calls may come to Baseball. But the change for next season is nothing more than the home plate equivalent of American football's challenge flag.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 14.3 ms ] thread"the challenge system that will be introduced next year, which gives each team two chances per nine innings to ask for an automated second guess"
Someday, fully-automated balls-and-strikes calls may come to Baseball. But the change for next season is nothing more than the home plate equivalent of American football's challenge flag.
MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354304