{"id":795732,"date":"2026-05-14T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795732\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:48:13","slug":"2026-mlb-abs-challenge-system-tracker-team-player-rankings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795732\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 MLB ABS challenge system tracker: Team, player rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><br class=\" \"\/><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Major League Baseball<\/a>implemented the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48288278\/opening-day-2026-mlb-season-preview-automated-ball-strike-challenge-system-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Here are the ABS challenge system rankings for batters, pitchers, catchers, teams and umpires for the 2026 MLB season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Data updated through Wednesday, May 13.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseballimplemented the ABS challenge systemfor the 2026 season, which allows players to challenge a ball or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[324703,1279,35286,1280,1276,1281,1271,1274,5048,1282,1283,1885,5723,2382,1284,1285,2502,1286,4247,1287,1266,1305,2228,2083,1886,1306,1275,1288,62,3692,1289,1278,1290,67,132,68,1291],"class_list":{"0":"post-795732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-324703","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-athletics-athletics","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-baltimore-orioles","13":"tag-boston-red-sox","14":"tag-chicago-cubs","15":"tag-chicago-white-sox","16":"tag-cincinnati-reds","17":"tag-cleveland-guardians","18":"tag-colorado-rockies","19":"tag-detroit-tigers","20":"tag-espn","21":"tag-houston-astros","22":"tag-kansas-city-royals","23":"tag-los-angeles-angels","24":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","25":"tag-miami-marlins","26":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","27":"tag-minnesota-twins","28":"tag-mlb","29":"tag-new-york-mets","30":"tag-new-york-yankees","31":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","32":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","33":"tag-san-diego-padres","34":"tag-san-francisco-giants","35":"tag-seattle-mariners","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","38":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","39":"tag-texas-rangers","40":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","41":"tag-united-states","42":"tag-unitedstates","43":"tag-us","44":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}