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humor The Onion 2026-05-22

MLB replaces blunder-prone teens with robot bat boys for maximum accuracy.

Major League Baseball is finally tackling human error by replacing teenagers with robots for bat-boy duties. Because nothing says 'reducing fallible judgment' like potential hydraulic arm malfunctions and robots bludgeoning knees. Let's hope they don't develop a superiority complex.

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