It’s a change has caught several Giants players by complete surprise, creating both confusion and frustration.

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

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 ...

In a statement to The Athletic's Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris, an MLB official explained the zone hasn't ...

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

The Athletic reported on Friday the change has to do with how the umpires are graded, causing the zone to be called ...

Tatis’ hitting streak came to an end at seven games when he went 0-for-4 last night. He was intentionally walked in the ...

At the same time, Clase has changed his approach to some extent. The cutter specialist is pounding the glove-side half of the ...

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 ...