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Organization

Major League Baseball

League institution setting pitching workload guidance and automated ball-strike challenge design.

Why this matters

Shows how sports authorities redistribute judgment between human eyes and measurement systems.

Focus in observatory

Works

article

MLB Announces ABS Challenge System Coming to the Major Leagues Beginning in the 2026 Season

Major League Baseball. "MLB Announces ABS Challenge System Coming to the Major Leagues Beginning in the 2026 Season." September 23, 2025, https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-mlb-announces-abs-challenge-system-coming-to-the-major-leagues-beginning-in-the-2026-season.

institutional document

Pitch Smart Pitching Guidelines

Major League Baseball. "Pitch Smart Pitching Guidelines." https://www.mlb.com/pitch-smart/pitching-guidelines.

Related books

Book

The Game We Think We Saw

What Sports Reveals About Winning, Judgment, and the Stories Results Cannot Settle

Sports gives us some of the clearest outcomes in public life. A score becomes final, a ruling takes effect, and one side advances. But the result cannot fully explain what produced it, why it should count, what it is allowed to justify, who carried its cost, or what the event will eventually mean. The Game We Think We Saw follows those unsettled questions from the scoreboard into the systems, bodies, judgments, and stories surrounding the game.