Less than a week after "robot umpires" were introduced for calling balls and strikes in the Atlantic League, an independent baseball minor league, there was an ejection over disagreeing with the ...

Frank Viola was loving life in the independent ranks. As the pitching coach for the Atlantic League’s High Point Rockers, he finally felt free of the chains of Major League Baseball. It wasn’t that ...

The Twitter post about her husband being ejected for arguing with a robot umpire is nearly three years old. But with Automated Ball-Strike technology having made its way to Las Vegas Ballpark this ...

(PR) (Photo courtesy: Rockers) High Point, N.C. – The High Point Rockers announced the signing of their first ever Field Manager and Pitching Coach at a press conference in downtown High Point on ...

The Atlantic League, the independent minor league that Major League Baseball has tapped to study rule changes, has seen another first. A coach has been ejected for cursing at an umpire — about a ...

The St. Paul Saints, and other Triple-A baseball teams this season, will use robot umpires to call balls and strikes. Former Minnesota Twin Frank Viola, five years ago as a minor league pitching coach ...

Former Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola, 53, is scheduled to undergo heart surgery next week and will be replaced as 51s pitching coach by Tom Signore until he can join the New York Mets’ Triple-A ...

It took all of one inning for a pro baseball to coach to lose himself over the new automated balls and strikes system. Yes, a former Cy Young Award winner got thrown out for arguing with TrackMan.

Mets Triple-A pitching coach Frank Viola will undergo heart surgery in New York this week, his family confirmed in a statement released through the club. Physicians discovered a heart condition when ...

To this day, Tom Kokoska still marvels that Frank Viola’s curveball seemed to drop out of the sky. Don Giordano remembers Ron Darling’s slider starting at a right-handed hitter’s head and somehow ...