{"id":69990,"date":"2026-03-25T15:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/former-mlb-umpire-fears-officials-face-humiliation-by-computer-geeks-under-abs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:59:55","slug":"former-mlb-umpire-fears-officials-face-humiliation-by-computer-geeks-under-abs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/former-mlb-umpire-fears-officials-face-humiliation-by-computer-geeks-under-abs\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB umpire fears officials face humiliation by \u2018computer geeks\u2019 under ABS"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Automated Ball-Strike System will start this season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Players will be able to challenge calls under system<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former major league umpire Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/sep\/23\/the-robots-are-almost-coming-mlb-players-allowed-to-challenge-strikes-and-balls-in-2026\">robot officials<\/a> will have on their human counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Major League Baseball has introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/26\/mlb-challenge-system-baseball\">the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System<\/a> for regular-season play in 2026, starting with the New York Yankees\u2019 opener at San Francisco on Wednesday night. Teams will have a chance to appeal strike zone decisions to a system based on 12 Hawk-Eye cameras.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/25\/former-mlb-umpire-fears-officials-face-humiliation-by-computer-geeks-under-abs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automated Ball-Strike System will start this season Players will be able to challenge calls under system Former major league umpire Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that robot officials will have on their human counterparts. Major League Baseball has introduced the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System for regular-season play in 2026, starting with the New &#8230; <a title=\"Former MLB umpire fears officials face humiliation by \u2018computer geeks\u2019 under ABS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/former-mlb-umpire-fears-officials-face-humiliation-by-computer-geeks-under-abs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former MLB umpire fears officials face humiliation by \u2018computer geeks\u2019 under ABS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}