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

If you think your team’s pitchers have been getting less strike calls on pitches just off the plate, you might not be crazy.

In a statement to The Athletic's Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris, an MLB official explained the zone hasn't changed and umpires haven't been instructed to call balls and strikes ...

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

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

After being tossed due to arguing balls and strikes with home plate ... to the game after his ejection, he broke MLB policy about players using electronic devices during games.

but the league's grading system appears to have had behavioral impacts with how picky umpires are with balls and strikes. It's a classic case of, "measure what matters." The MLB says it discussed ...

According to The Athletic, MLB changed how its home plate umpires are evaluated on their calls of balls and strikes. MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been ...