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Last fall, MLB tested the ball-and-strike challenge system in the Arizona Fall League and announced that it would be tested in Spring Training this year.
Today, via Evan Drellich in The Athletic, we have some details of that test — including word that the Cubs will have the fewest games of any team with testing:
More than 60 percent of spring games will feature the automated strike zone.