Major League Baseball sent a memo to farm directors Tuesday indicating that beginning on June 25, all Triple-A games will use the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system.

Triple-A is changing now, but the earliest the ABS challenge system could be seen at the major-league level is 2026 Ryan Young Staff writer June 19, 2024 at 12:35 AM UTC · ...

Starting June 25, only the ABS challenge system will be used in Triple A, according to a memo sent Tuesday from MLB that was obtained by The Associated Press.

The challenge system will already be used across Triple-A this year, and some people close to MLB believe it could be implemented at the major league level as early as 2026. How will that affect ...

ABS is, instead, used as part of a challenge system, one that started in the independent Atlantic League (under MLB supervision) and has spent the last few years working its way up the Minor ...

MLB will test an automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system this spring in order to gather data to determine whether or not to implement the system during regular season big league games ...

The ABS system aims to improve accuracy and consistency in ball and ... (ABS) challenge system used in 13 ballparks across Florida and ... Last season during a test run at the Triple-A level, ...

The challenge system, which was tested in Triple-A last year, will not be used in the 2025 MLB regular season. But depending on how this spring goes, it could be adopted in the big leagues for ...

The ABS challenge system is being tested during spring training games in 2025 after two years of experimentation at the Triple-A level. This spring, every team starts each game with two challenges ...

For the first half of this season at Triple-A, full ABS was used for Tuesday-Thursday games while the challenge system was used for weekend contests. Now, all games will have the challenge system.