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The Valenti Show

Valenti LOVES MLB's New ABS System

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Mike explains why he thinks the ABS system in MLB is one of the best things to happen to sports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So before we wrap up the week, Tiger's opening day, great win, 4-0,

0:04.7

beautiful weather, full park, middle of the order was excellent.

0:09.5

And Framber Valdez did what you paid him to do.

0:12.0

Pitch really well.

0:13.0

And it's not always going to be sexy, but he's going to pitch 200 innings.

0:16.2

He's one of a handful of guys that'll still do that.

0:19.5

But ABS is God's gift to sports fans because this review

0:24.6

system in baseball is awesome. Now, what's not awesome, and Kenny has a bit of a presentation,

0:32.0

what's not awesome is how much it's exposing umps and certain umps way more than that.

0:39.8

Now, I'll get to that in a second.

0:41.4

But I'll give an example.

0:42.4

The other night, the Yankees went five for five on challenges.

0:47.2

I mean, that's five pitches that were just dead set wrong, that were fixed by this.

0:53.3

And the total review time was less than a minute and a half in total for five calls.

0:59.1

And when you look at it, you start to go, my God, and how much of an impact do these umps have on the game where I had to fix five of your mistakes?

1:09.8

Think about a coach in hockey making

1:12.3

five challenges or basketball or certainly. Imagine a coach with five challenges. Dan Campbell, five

1:19.9

challenges in a football game. You'd be like, well, this crew's on drugs. Now, I understand. Umps have a job

1:26.9

that is different. But what it's showing you is, A, these hitters have a ridiculous eye. Ridiculous. Because they'll show you the replay. Rico, it's less than a pepperoni. And they're like, they're right. But Kenny has stats. Yeah. Because it was, I was listening to this morning when AJ was on with the morning show and he said,

1:46.0

rather than get emotional, he just told his guys, learn the strike zone.

1:50.3

Know that.

1:51.5

And if you feel that way, go ahead and tap your helmet because I'm not going to say you can't.

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