"Why are you coming out of there?" ML is recognized! Hanwha Peraza's 'ABS' Best Upside Down Batter' Criticisms

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Major League Baseball (MLB) will also finally introduce ABS (strike-ball automatic determination system). In addition to what was implemented earlier in the minor leagues, it is now being used in earnest in exhibition games ahead of the opening of the season.

The difference from the KBO League is that it does not apply to all pitches. If you are not convinced by the referee's ball decision, you can apply for a challenge, and like the video reading of the KBO League, you can decide whether to make a decision after checking through ABS.

ABS is a big topic in MLB exhibition games. In Korea, where things that look at with the eyes or that are unconvincing to batters and pitchers are reversed by the result of the judgment, they are feeling new to what they have already experienced.

MLB.COM, the official website of MLB, said on the 28th (Korea Standard Time), "ABS (automatic ball-strike challenge system provided by T-Mobile) has finally been introduced," adding, "Through spring training, we will be able to check for the first time who is the best and worst at the ball-strike challenge between Major League hitters and catchers."

Baseball Servant, a U.S. baseball statistics site, has created a challenge leader board along with an ABS dashboard. MLB.COM introduced an interesting challenge record in this regard.

MLB.COM introduced the players who won the challenge the most, the players who simply requested the challenge the most, and the players who reversed the decision the most, some of which stood out. After playing for the Hanwha Eagles in the 2024 season, Jonathan Peraza (28) returned to Hanwha this season after playing for Triple-A El Paso Chihuahua under the San Diego Padres in 2025.

Peraza played for Hanwha in 2024, when ABS was first introduced, and recorded a batting average of 0.275 with 24 home runs, 70 RBIs, 75 runs, 129 strikeouts, 63 walks, an on-base percentage of 0.364 and an on-base plus slugging percentage of 0.486 and an OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) of 0.850 in 122 games.

However, he failed to renew his contract with Hanwha. The decisive reason was that he was active with a batting average of 0.312 16 home runs in the first half, but showed extreme ups and downs with a batting average of 0.229 eight home runs in the second half.

Peraza, who headed to the minor leagues, won the Minor League Player of the Year Award in 138 games with a batting average of 0.307 19 home runs, 113 RBIs, 106 runs, 15 steals, 125 strikeouts, 74 walks, an on-base percentage of 0.391, a slugging percentage of 0.510 and an OPS of 0.901.

Maybe it's because they've already experienced the ABS system. I didn't have any difficulty adapting at all. MLB.COM introduced Peraza as "the best hitter in overturning the decision in at-bats," and said, "Players can challenge the ball-strike decision in any count, but the most noticeable effect is that the referee turns three strikes into four balls to eliminate strikeouts or walk the strike decision," adding, "Peraza was the batter who raised the most objections to changing the at-bat decision in Triple-A in 2025. He struck out seven and walked four through objections. Four of these cases were made in full-count situations with strikeouts and walks, and there were overlapping cases," he said.

"Peraza, a member of the San Diego Minor League, was not the player with the highest rate of success in raising objections overall (less than 50 percent), but he was able to change not only the pitch but also the entire at-bat by using objections intensively in situations of two strikes or three balls," he said.

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