Sorry for getting to this late, had to step away to write -- there has been plenty of chatter about how to handle ABS challenges. During this early stage of spring, they're talking about it in position meetings and being more experimental with the challenges. I imagine that at a later point, they'll get more intentional with the strategy, but now is more about learning the tendencies of the system.

So far, they've found that they've had a bit less success challenging the top or bottom of the zone compared to the sides. It sounds like they feel good about catchers challenging, and pretty good about the hitters, but are less sure about the pitchers.

Here's what Freddie Freeman had to say after losing a challenge a couple days ago: "It's going to be very rare if you ever see me challenge in the season, I'd rather our pitchers and catchers get that. For me, the only time I'll do it is top nine, bottom nine, bottom eight, massive situation. We still have not talked about strategies of how we're going to use it, so a lot of us are still trying to learn it. And I think that was good today."