The current MLB strike zone has been in place since 1996. The zone itself has remained unchanged for a generation, but there ...

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

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

Yorkville’s Frankie Pavlik puts it all together with the bat and on the mound Monday in a wild 10-8 over Oswego.

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

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

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 ...

Pitchers across Major League Baseball find that the strike zone they’ve known for years no longer plays the same. This season, a behind-the-scenes tweak to how umpires are evaluated has ...

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

Chris Paddack said pitching coach Pete Maki had alerted the starters in mid-April that the zone had “shrunk a little bit ...