Triple-A Columbus manager Andy Tracy approached Joey Cantillo on Wednesday with some news. Cantillo was not going to start ...

Right-hander Luis L. Ortiz, acquired from Pittsburgh during the offseason, placed on paid leave through the All-Star break as ...

The strike zone actually has narrowed horizontally, Roegele found, but called strikes are typically coming on pitches that are as much as 3 inches below where the bottom of the strike zone had ...

Nevertheless, players interviewed about this change say the strike zone feels noticeably smaller. The Athletic polled 15 MLB players, as well as more than a dozen coaches, executives and analysts ...

The strike zone is evolving, and for the first time in the history of baseball, we have the technology to directly record that evolution. And what it says about this month is very revealing.

MLB has tweaked Triple A's electronic strike zone, for the benefit of robot umps — and crouching hitters — everywhere. Why you should care.

The human strike zone is more oval shaped than a rectangle, while the computer calls a zone with four distinct corners. So as it currently stands, ...

MLB umpires are squeezing the strike zone, and it’s hurting some teams more than others August 16, 2021 More than 3 years ago Umpires have missed strike calls in 2021 at the highest rate since ...