The league fears the digital box hovering over home plate showing viewers an approximation of the strike zone could interfere with ABS’ effectiveness. ESPN debuted K-Zone in 2001, and since then ...

And I don’t think that’s the case.” McCarthy was grasping at straws there, knowing there was nothing digitally wrong with the strike zone box on the broadcast, but also struggling to fathom ...

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

Well, it turns out that all MLB needed to do was accidentally shrink the strike zone. Shrinking the zone was occasionally mentioned as a Hail Mary solution while the offense went kaput throughout ...

It wouldn’t be fair to describe the joint article from Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris about the “shrinking” MLB strike zone as a bombshell. It’s a fascinating and necessary ...