THE STRIKE ZONE IS currently defined in the Major ... The automated system didn't care about art. And baseball ran into other unexpected issues. Jack Dreyer, a pitcher who played last season ...

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

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

San Francisco Giants right-hander Justin Verlander is frustrated with Major League Baseball after a change they made in the grading of umpires resulted in a tighter strike zone. The buffer zone of ...

PHOENIX — The robo ump could kill K-Zone. On Thursday, Major League Baseball will employ what it calls the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, in a big-league spring training game for the ...

NEW YORK — For at least a couple of years, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has made clear that if a form of the automated strike zone comes to ... let me use the word, ‘art,’ of the game.

And Raleigh, who's one of the best pitch-framers in baseball, has been and will continue to navigate the strike zone for Seattle's starting rotation.

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 ...