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 ...

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

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

If an umpire called a strike that was a horseshoe outside of the zone, it was considered a “correct” call for grading purposes. Here’s a picture of a baseball to help you visualize this.

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.

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 ...