""It's coming. It's going to change the game. It's going to change the game forever.""
""I think with any sort of technology, there's not 100% certainty of the accurateness of the system," Slater said. "I think the same can be said of umpires. So I think it's just coming to grips with the impact that technology is going to have and whether or not we were willing to live with that error that was associated with the system, even if the error is very, very miniscule.""
Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System beginning in 2026. Human plate umpires will still call balls and strikes, but teams will be allowed two challenges per game with additional appeals in extra innings. Challenges must be signaled by a pitcher, catcher, or batter tapping a helmet or cap, and a team retains its challenge if successful. Reviews will be displayed as digital graphics on outfield videoboards. Big league umpires currently call roughly 94% of pitches correctly. MLB reported that about 61.5% of ejections last year and 60.3% this season were related to balls and strikes.
Read at Boston.com
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