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 ...

But last week's developments - Major League Baseball's test of the automated strike zone, and the possibility of this rule change taking effect in regular season games as early as 2026 or '27- has ...

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 ...