Hawkeye

Hawkeye appears in MLB brings automated ball-strike tech to the Big Leagues as the ball-tracking company Major League Baseball has worked with while testing the Automated Ball Strike Challenge System. Nola Agha says Hawkeye has done ball tracking since 2001 and that MLB has spent years refining the system.

The source uses Hawkeye to make Baseball Strike-Zone Automation concrete. ABS is not presented as generic “AI”; it is a measured sports-technology stack that depends on cameras, calibration, strike-zone placement, and rules for what happens when tracking fails.

Connections

• Major League Baseball - league customer and testing context in the source.
• ABS - system using ball-tracking data.
• Nola Agha - expert explaining Hawkeye’s role.
• Sports Officiating Automation - broader review-technology pattern.