Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season.

The particulars are pending a Tuesday vote from the MLB competition committee, an 11-person group that includes six team owners, four players and one umpire.

The system was tested in spring training and at the 2025 All-Star Game. The New York Post was first to report the actionable agenda for the committee on Tuesday.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred previously said the challenge system had ownership support, but he was getting more feedback at midseason on “deploying it in a way that’s acceptable to the players.”

Already Manfred foreshadowed the system’s imminent arrival with an agreement with the umpire union that added provisions for ABS (automated balls and strikes) adoption.

The committee has the power

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