How SF Giants’ Bailey is already mastering MLB’s new robot umpire system
Airfind news item
By Delos Santos
Published on March 17, 2026.
Patrick Bailey, a two-time Gold Glove Award winner and best defensive catcher in baseball, is already mastering Major League Baseball's new automated ball-strike system, or ABS, by winning nine of his 11 challenges as a catcher this spring. Despite initially being initially sceptical about the system, Bailey has found he can use it as another tool to steal from his fellow catchers and gain value. He believes the system will enhance his skills and widen the gap between him and other catchers. Despite this, manager Tony Vitello believes that it will accentuate Bailey's type of player. Bailey has a league-wide overturn success rate of 82 percent, while the league's overall overturn rate is 59 percent.
Read Original Article