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

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

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

Changes to the way Major League Baseball evaluates umpires has resulted in fewer called strikes on the edges of the zone ...

If you think your team’s pitchers have been getting less strike calls on pitches just off the plate, you might not be crazy.

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

Batters, pitchers and catchers were able to challenge a home plate umpire’s ball or strike call. Powered by Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology, the automated ball-strike system replays the pitch ...

The MLB has had its fair ... more of a spotlight on umpire errors, especially with the generally positive attitude towards ABS following its use in spring training. On Monday, a new stat dropped ...

For just the third time since Umpire Scorecards began tracking balls and strikes in 2015, there was a perfectly called game ...

Hunter Wendelstedt was umpiring first base last week when he was drilled in the left ear by a line drive. He's seen replays ...

According to The Athletic, MLB changed how its home plate umpires are evaluated on their calls of balls and strikes. MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been ...