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The Future of Challenge Strategy: Insights from ABS in Triple-A
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The Future of Challenge Strategy: Insights from ABS in Triple-A

We explore the triumphs and pitfalls of teams’ use of the ABS challenge system in 2024 in Triple-A, providing a sneak peek of MLB’s future

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The automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system has finally (sort of) hit the bigs! Spring Training has been many fans’ first introduction to the system, in which hitters, catchers, and pitchers can challenge the result of pitches, triggering a ruling by an automated system that uses pitch data to determine the true location of the pitch and make the p…

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