The AL Central draft makeup is quite interesting. The White Sox are the only team in the AL Central with a top-10 pick, and ...

The New York Yankees defeated the Texas Rangers on Thursday thanks to the hard work of Carlos Rodón, Luke Weaver and umpire ...

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

PHILADELPHIA -- Sandy Alcantara took the mound Friday night in Philadelphia with one goal: pound the strike zone. He certainly did that ... perhaps too much. Though Alcantara routinely got ahead of ...

No matter your place in the sports media food chain, it might be time to admit that the ceremonial first pitch just isn’t for ...

It's been quite a week for Phoenix's own Siera Santos, the co-host of MLB Network's hit show "Intentional Talk." On Monday, May 5, she starred as the narrator in the Arizona Diamondbacks' video ...

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 ...

5 p.m. MLB Network Strike Zone — Check your local listings, 7 p.m. Blue Jays Central — Sportsnet One, 9 p.m. Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 12:30 a.m. (Thursday) NBA Tip-Off — TNT/truTV/Max ...

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 ...

disagreed with a strike-two call that might have clipped the bottom of the strike zone. And before Shildt, who had already expressed his displeasure with Johnson’s zone throughout the game ...

Where umpires used to have a “buffer zone” around the strike zone that gave them a couple inches to work with in the way they were graded, that has now shrunk significantly. Though the zone ...