Automated ball-strike (ABS) challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season.
A vote on Tuesday by the MLB Joint Competition Committee, an 11-person group that includes six team owners, four players and one umpire, made the proposed rule change official.
"The previous rule changes that have been adopted by the Joint Competition Committee have had staying power and created momentum for the game. We used the same process with ABS that started with listening to fans, conducting extensive testing at the minor league level, and trying at every step to make the game better," MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.
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