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But last week's developments - Major League Baseball's test of the automated strike zone, and the possibility of this rule change taking effect in regular season games as early as 2026 or '27- has ...

Joey Cantillo struck out nine San Francisco batters, but the Guardians allowed 17 hits in a loss to the Giants.

The rulebook strike zone is essentially home plate, projected over a three-dimensional space with a defined top and bottom ...

Major League Baseball is being dragged into the future, even as some players and fans kick and scream. Thirteen spring ...

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 151,000 new non-farm payroll jobs — below economist estimates of ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Justin Verlander was on a minor-league rehab assignment when he got his first taste of the automated ball ...

One of the biggest adjustments is that the zone called by umpires isn't a rectangle and tends to bulge in the middle. MLB research also found that the human strike zone tightens from 550 square ...

One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike ...

Players were measured at the beginning of spring training (without cleats) to get their measurements for the strike zone. The top end of the strike zone is 53.5% of a player’s height.