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 […]
PITCHf/x, QuesTec, and HBO
This guest post was written by C. Sven Jenkins PITCHf/x, QuesTec, and HBO Back in 2002 I met umpire Mark Hirschbeck. He informed me that even though baseball used QuesTec to rate umpires, the information from the findings would never be knowledge for the entire baseball world to see. Hirschbeck, arguing with Scott Brosius QuesTec […]
