Doing so didn't have much impact throughout the summer of 2024, as the Mets played most of their 162 games. That changed with the launch of iOS 18, which introduced Live Activities, adding the ability ...

Salutations. Back at the keyboard after a weekend away from the ballpark, and what a weekend the Cardinals had at the ...

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

Bailey is the game's best strike-stealer. With the "buffer" zone shrinking, his framing skills could be mitigated.

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.

Harper’s production has been diminished due to a combination of staying out of the strike zone and coming in with mostly ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

And it is. Since 2015, there have been four other pitchers with an In-Zone% greater than 53%, a chase rate below 25%, and an ...

And Raleigh, who's one of the best pitch-framers in baseball, has been and will continue to navigate the strike zone for Seattle's starting rotation.