Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona says he's told players not to use the experimental Automated Ball-Strike System in spring training.

Reds manager Terry Francona doesn’t see the point of asking his veteran players to utilize the experimental Automated Ball-Strike system during spring training. The ABS system for challenging calls is being tested out by MLB during spring training games,

Several of the Reds minor leaguers have prior experience with the ABS challenge system, which, along with full ABS (all balls and strikes automated) was tested at the Double and Triple-A levels in '23 and '24. By the end of '24, full ABS was dropped in favor of the happy middle ground, the ABS challenge system.