NEW YORK — The robots are still expected to come to baseball.

Just not next year.

Speaking at the conclusion of the Major League Baseball owners’ meetings Thursday, commissioner Rob Manfred said the automated ball-strike system being experimented with in the minor leagues has not reached a high enough standard to be big-league-ready next year.

“We still have some technical issues in terms of the operation of the system that we haven’t made as much progress in the minor leagues this year as we sort of hoped at this point,’’ said Manfred. “I think it’s becoming more and more likely that this will not be a go for 2025.

“We’re going to continue. One thing we did learn with the changes that we went through last year is taking the extra time to make sure you have it right is definitely the best approach.’’

The problem, said Manfred, lies in establishing the “definition and setting the strike zone for individual batters.’’

Among the concerns of players are unintended consequences of an ABS system, he said. For instance, if the framing skills of a catcher are useful only to help sway a human umpire, the position may become much more offensively oriented.

If and when ABS is brought to the big leagues, Manfred said, it should start with the calls eligible to be challenged.

Manfred touched on a number of other topics:

■ Representatives from Nike addressed the owners and “appropriately took responsibility for the issues with respect to the new uniforms and the rollout of those uniforms,’’ said Manfred.

The topic roiled spring training, when players expressed concerns over the fabric, transparency, lettering, and other assorted issues with the tweaked designs.

“Nike reiterated for the owners their commitment to make sure that they got the uniforms right and went through the specific plans that they have for ’25,’’ said Manfred.

■ MLB remains tied up with Diamond Sports Group, the bankrupt broadcaster that carries several teams’ games and is supposed to be a major source of income for those clubs.

“Diamond is obviously a big problem,’’ said Manfred. “There’s not much good about Diamond actually right now, but they remain bankrupt, in case any of you have missed that.’’

Many of those teams’ games are not being shown on Comcast at the moment.

“We just don’t have the legal right or the ability to solve that problem,’’ said Manfred. “We always are concerned when we have fans who are not able to watch games. I mean, it’s a problem.

“If I were a betting man, I think that Diamond continues to operate and pay our teams through the 2024 season.’’

No viable discussion about MLB nationalizing its media rights can take place before a resolution is reached with Diamond. Getting all 30 teams — some with successful regional sports networks — to agree to some form of a nationalized deal would be a complicated endeavor.

■ Baseball moved the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta when Georgia passed restrictive voting laws. The laws remain in place, and the game is returning to Atlanta next July.

What changed?

“I think that one of the things we’ve learned over time is that the more we stay out of political issues, the better off we are, that people like their sports separate from their politics,’’ said Manfred. “We’ve got a fan base, it’s all over the political spectrum. And the safest thing for us to do is focus on baseball.

“It is difficult to make those judgments in a way that doesn’t offend part of your fan base.’’

■ The sport remains “concerned’’ about prop bets, said Manfred, and continues to lobby states about restricting certain kinds.

■ Studies continue on the uptick in injuries to starting pitchers, said Manfred, who noted that most of those injuries are occurring early in the season.

■ Manfred cited with surprise an average attendance of almost 35,500 last weekend, “a really strong weekend performance’’ that hasn’t been seen in May “in over a decade.’’

Manfred said viewership is up 7 percent for ESPN’s Sunday night games, FS1 is up 18 percent, MLB Network is up 10 percent, and “maybe most important’’ viewership is up double digits among viewers in the 18-34 age bracket.

■ The average time of game has been 2:36, about four minutes swifter than last year, the first full season with pace-of-game rules in place.

“It’s a good number from our perspective,’’ said Manfred.

■ Offense, at least batting average, is “a little down,’’ he said, noting that the sample size is not large enough to draw any conclusions.

■ Four host cities were announced for the 2026 World Baseball Classic: Miami, San Juan, Tokyo, and Houston, with Miami hosting the finals.

■ Manfred believes stadium plans are on schedule for the A’s moving from Oakland to Las Vegas and the Rays moving from St. Petersburg to Tampa by 2028.

Michael Silverman can be reached at michael.silverman@globe.com.