Royals home Spring Training games to feature strike zone challenge system tests

Jeremy Greco is an editor at Royals Review and has been writing there since 2016. He also co-hosts the Royals Rundown Podcast with Jacob Milham. He plays too many video games.

For the past few seasons minor league baseball has been testing a new strike zone challenge system called Automated Ball Strike Challenge System or ABS. This year, for the first time, the system will be tested out at the Major League Level. In fact, it was tried out for the first time yesterday during the first matchup of the spring between the Dodgers and Cubs.

What is ABS?

The ABS system uses a series of cameras (called Hawk-Eye cameras, which endears them to me immediately) working in concert to determine where a…