Shrinking the zone was occasionally mentioned as a Hail Mary solution while the offense went kaput throughout the 2010s and ...

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

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

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

Major League Baseball has made numerous changes in the past few seasons, with the most notable being the electronic ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Changes to the way Major League Baseball evaluates umpires has resulted in fewer called strikes on the edges of the zone ...

Although it’s been used in the minor leagues since 2023, MLB's implementation of its automatic balls and strikes system (ABS) ...

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