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

Recently, two articles about MLB’s slow dance with a possible automated ball/strike system, or challenge system, appeared in ...

Something subtle yet significant seems to be happening on the MLB ... buffer zone, which for the past two decades gave umpires 2 inches of leeway on all sides (inside and outside the strike ...

An MLB official confirmed that the buffer zone had decreased in size. The intent of the buffer zone change is simple: to call the rulebook strike zone more accurately. But the real-life impact ...

MLB says overall accuracy is up. And maybe it is. But when players across the league say they weren’t told about a strike zone shift that’s already impacting performance and careers ...

These improvements wouldn't necessarily be happening without the new strike zone. Seattle hitters aren't especially disciplined, ranking in the bottom half of MLB with a 28.3 out-of-zone swing rate.

Amid a series of complaints from players about the strike zone so far this season, MLB has denied that changes were made to the size of the zone. In a statement to The Athletic's Jayson Stark ...

One of the most tenured players in Major League Baseball has had some critiques about the state of the game and is markedly ...