MLB will use robot referees starting next season

The main baseball game in the league will use the so -called robot referees in the home board starting in 2026, the league Declare today. The system was tested in simple league games (he explained In this videoLiser below), spring training, and events like 2025 All-Star game.

The automatic strike system (ABS) is seen as a more fair and more accurate way to connect when the stadium is a ball or blow, which is currently by the human tight home plate. The stadium is a ball when it is thrown outside the strike area and hit it when it is inside the area, but the UMPS for the home plate is often the goal of anger when making bad calls. The strike area of ​​individual players differs based on their position and size.

ABS will not replace the human rulers completely – it is called only when the player challenges the referee’s call. Each team gets two challenges in a game, and the only players who can request ABS review are a jug, mask, and mixture. The team does not lose a challenge if the player requests one and the call is rejected. MLB says the process takes 15 seconds and makes sure that it “will testify to the official height of each player” to ensure the accurately specified strike area.

ABS’s use of challenges feels somewhere in the middle of relying on human rulers and going to an automatic system. “The strong preference was from the players to coordinate the challenge to the use of technology to summon the whole stadium a major factor in identifying the system that we announce today,” said Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Bibli.

like Athlete ReportsHow can the players respond to the new system to the position they play or the position in which the player is (if there is a full number, the rules are loaded, your strategy may be different than if it is a less dependent call). There is also the most philosophical question about what the super technology of the game that is sometimes frustrated to all concerned: Does the last quarter of the strike area the baseball game more or less? I think that everyone benefits from them and gets bad calls from time to time, and perhaps equally. We will see how the system feels next season.

Meanwhile, MLB released some interesting statistics from the test during spring training: