The robots are officially here. Major League Baseball announced yesterday that the automated ball-strike challenge system will be implemented in the 2026 season, complete with a corporate partnership with T-Mobile. (Yes, that’s where we are in late capitalism: rules now have corporate sponsors.) If you’ve been to any AAA games over the past few years, or paid attention during spring training, then you already know how this works. Every team starts each game with two challenges, which are retained when a challenge is successful. Only the pitcher, batter, or catcher can challenge a call. Should be good news for Roman Anthony and Triston Casas (remember him?) (MLB.com)

It sure would be nice to have Anthony and Casas back in the lineup right now, huh? With the Red Sox struggling to score runs

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