{"id":479034,"date":"2026-02-20T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:28:07","slug":"braves-tested-new-abs-system-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479034\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves tested new ABS system today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system beginning this season, teams will begin the process of adjusting to it this spring. For the Braves, that started today.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Bowman has an article, including some quotes from Drake Baldwin among others, on how it will force players to adjust their perception of the strike zone based on a player\u2019s height.<\/p>\n<p>With each team only allotted two challenges during a nine inning game (won challenges will retain the challenge; extra innings will add challenges), it will be critical for a pitcher, catcher or batter to know when to make the correct challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/MLB.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com<\/a> article below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system beginning this season, teams will begin the process of adjusting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-479034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}