Dodgers' Hyeseong Kim benefits from brand new check-swing challenge

Hyeseong Kim was recently sent down to Triple-A by the Los Angeles Dodgers. It can't have been a move he was fond of, but it ...
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MLB: Guinea pig in Oklahoma! Kim Hye-seong debuts the 'check-swing challenge'

The Korean infielder for the Dodgers is living a one-of-a-kind experience in Triple-A: the check-swing challenge, a new technology that could shake up baseball as we know it.
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MLB To Test Check-Swing Rule In Triple-A

Major League Baseball will implement a handful of rule changes at various levels of the minor leagues during the 2026 season. Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs first reported the slate and those ...
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MLB To Test Check-Swing Rule In Triple-A

MLB had tested this rule in the Low-A Florida State League and the Arizona Fall League last year. A check-swing challenge system requires an objective cutoff point. The threshold is whether the bat ...