Though that was once largely considered out of the bounds of possibility, MLB games officiated by so-called “robot umpires” are ... Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black spoke positively of ...

"The strike zone was, on a given night, at times, a little variable," Black said ... called QuesTec to evaluate umpire performances at some ballparks. In 2009, MLB expanded the evaluations ...

This has been a policy within baseball for years, stemming back to the infamous Black ... umpire also intentionally deleted messages and a Telegram account that were deemed important in MLB ...

Shelley Curtis White was an umpire’s umpire ... effort to recognize those who helped shape the future of young Black men at the Little League field in Southcrest. “One of our themes for ...

One day, Kerwin Danley, a Los Angeles native who became MLB’s first Black crew chief in 2020, saw Moore and sought him out for an invitation. “‘You’re going to come with me to the batting cages, and ...

“The strike zone was, on a given night, at times, a little variable,” Black said ... the league began using a system called QuesTec to evaluate umpire performances at some ballparks. In 2009, MLB ...

“But communicating that to umpires and pitchers was challenging.” MLB is on course to have a binary ball-strike system, with no room for pitchers “hitting the black” or umpires relaxing their zone in ...

In addition to Márquez, umpire Kerwin Danley, will be the MLB's first black crew chief. According to the AP, there are only a dozen umpires of color in the league. Danley is an outlier in his field.