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

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

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 ...

Sean Barber appeared to be asleep at the wheel for a brief moment during Sunday’s game. The veteran umpire Barber was behind ...

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.

BOSTON — After an inning in Cleveland on Wednesday during which multiple pitches weren’t called strikes that the Twins believed should have gone their way, catcher Ryan Jeffers suggested the strike ...

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 ...

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