{"id":595510,"date":"2026-04-09T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595510\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:05:11","slug":"2026-mlb-abs-challenge-system-tracker-team-player-rankings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595510\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 MLB ABS challenge system tracker: Team, player rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Major League Baseball<\/a> implemented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48288278\/opening-day-2026-mlb-season-preview-automated-ball-strike-challenge-system-rule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABS challenge system<\/a> for the 2026 season, which allows players to challenge a ball or strike call made by the plate umpire. Each team receives two challenges to start the game, and only batters, pitchers and catchers can challenge a call. If a team wins a challenge, it can keep challenging. If a team challenges incorrectly twice, it loses its challenges for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the ABS challenge system rankings for batters, pitchers, catchers, teams and umpires for the 2026 MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>Data updated through Wednesday, April 8.<\/p>\n<p>Batter ABS Challenge LeadersPitcher ABS Challenge LeadersCatcher ABS Challenge LeadersMLB Team ABS Challenge RankingsUmpire ABS Challenge LeadersRankNamePitches<br \/>ChallengedCalls<br \/>OverturnedOverturn<br \/>RatePitches<br \/>Called1Erich Bacchus500.0%6321John Libka100.0%2373Will Little10110.0%9194John Tumpane7114.3%6035Derek Thomas5120.0%3635Emil Jimenez5120.0%2997Jordan Baker8225.0%8347Chris Conroy4125.0%6627Roberto Ortiz4125.0%28110Quinn Wolcott7228.6%91610Ryan Additon7228.6%64912Nestor Ceja9333.3%87212Shane Livensparger6233.3%60912Stu Scheurwater6233.3%58112Mike Muchlinski3133.3%51712James Jean3133.3%29912Edwin Jimenez3133.3%27418David Rackley14535.7%120319Vic Carapazza11436.4%92319D.J. Reyburn11436.4%64819Ramon De Jesus11436.4%63422Adam Beck8337.5%59822Edwin Moscoso8337.5%66624Nic Lentz13538.5%72924Rob Drake13538.5%90326Alan Porter5240.0%54127Lance Barksdale12541.7%88828Gabe Morales7342.9%56928Jansen Visconti7342.9%55328Jeremie Rehak7342.9%57031Ben May9444.4%66431Alex Tosi9444.4%51933Nick Mahrley11545.5%92533Malachi Moore11545.5%87035Ryan Blakney13646.2%85636Carlos Torres12650.0%92136Todd Tichenor10550.0%88636Hunter Wendelstedt8450.0%49936Marvin Hudson8450.0%81736Mark Ripperger8450.0%63536Chris Guccione6350.0%61536Willie Traynor6350.0%66436Alex MacKay2150.0%26344Bruce Dreckman15853.3%93545Tripp Gibson13753.8%100546Tom Hanahan9555.6%61147Brian O&#8217;Nora14857.1%97347Dan Merzel7457.1%56347Brennan Miller7457.1%63147Steven Jaschinski7457.1%32451Manny Gonzalez12758.3%63452Scott Barry5360.0%60852Laz Diaz15960.0%85452Lance Barrett15960.0%86855Doug Eddings13861.5%89455Charlie Ramos13861.5%87257Alfonso M\u00e1rquez8562.5%78958Bill Miller11763.6%84059Dan Iassogna171164.7%117260Dan Bellino151066.7%85560Adam Hamari6466.7%56460Brian Walsh3266.7%25063Mark Wegner13969.2%91764Chad Fairchild10770.0%57465Adrian Johnson171270.6%101366James Hoye7571.4%60566Ryan Wills7571.4%64566Nate Tomlinson7571.4%60869Cory Blaser8675.0%61569Sean Barber4375.0%32271CB Bucknor9777.8%67471Paul Clemons9777.8%53873Ron Kulpa141178.6%68374Mike Estabrook151280.0%87374Junior Valentine5480.0%56776Chris Segal171482.4%85977Andy Fletcher171588.2%90578Chad Whitson111090.9%57679Jim Wolf33100.0%27479Brock Ballou22100.0%24779Clint Vondrak22100.0%573<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball implemented the ABS challenge system for the 2026 season, which allows players to challenge a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-595510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}