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

MLB shrank the strike zone without warning most players. Now pitchers are losing games, leverage, and trust in the league.

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 ...

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

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

Changes to the way Major League Baseball evaluates umpires has resulted in fewer called strikes on the edges of the zone through the first month of the 2025 season, reports The Athletic. The change ...

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 ...