How Major League Baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike System Will Change the Game in 2026
For more than 100 years, baseball has prided itself on being a game of human judgment – a sport in which umpires, not machines, call the strike zone. That’s about to change. Beginning in 2026, Major League Baseball (MLB) will officially introduce the use of an automated ball-strike system, commonly known as “robot umpires.” The […]
Robot Umpires: Is This the Future of Baseball?
This year, the independent Atlantic League introduced a TrackMan computer system that some believe could replace the role of human umpires. During the league’s all-star game in York, Pennsylvania on July 10, a computer system recorded balls and strikes, then relayed the information to the umpire to make the calls. For quite some time, robots […]
