An adjustment in how umpires are graded has impacted ball-strike calls during the season’s first month, leaving players to ...

Late Monday at Yankee Stadium, revenge was a dish best served with a pair of well-struck line drives. In the top of the ...

In a statement to The Athletic's Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris, an MLB official explained the zone hasn't ...

Former Atlanta Braves catcher Travis d'Arnaud did not mince words when asked about umpiring this season and how much it has ...

The Athletic reported on Friday the change has to do with how the umpires are graded, causing the zone to be called ...

MLB pitchers including, Logan Webb, and Matt Strahm, are frustrated with the league's new, tighter strike zone in 2025.

MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been judged with a two-inch “buffer zone,” which essentially gave them that much leeway when it came to being judged on ...

Ryan Walker’s first blown save of the year started with a bad call on strike three to Mike Trout — it was called ball four ...

Now, however, that buffer zone has shrunk, from 2 inches on all sides to just three-quarters of an inch on all sides, inside and outside the strike zone, according to league sources briefed on the ...

The first month of the 2025 MLB regular season is in the books and things are beginning to look normal, for lack of a better ...

Where umpires used to have a “buffer zone” around the strike zone that gave them a couple inches to work with in the way they were graded, that has now shrunk significantly. Though the zone ...