With offense on the decline and strikeouts at an all-time high, Major League Baseball is looking into shrinking the strike zone, according to a Yahoo! Sports report. Any formal rules change would have ...

NEW YORK — If a minor league player says an umpire is acting like a robot this year, he might be right. Computer umpires for balls and strikes are coming to a low-level minor league but are a while ...

With the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system in line to be fully integrated in Major League games at the start of next season, it will mark the biggest rule change the sport has seen since ...

It wouldn’t be fair to describe the joint article from Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris about the “shrinking” MLB strike zone as a bombshell. It’s a fascinating and necessary story, but the ...

ATLANTA – Minor league baseball players have had the opportunity to get familiar with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system. Major league players were introduced to it in spring training, but once ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred cited a unique “unscientific system” that makes him think the top level of baseball is ready for strike zone replay. Talking to Evan Drellich of The Athletic, Manfred said ...

Pitchers across Major League Baseball find that the strike zone they’ve known for years no longer plays the same. This season, a behind-the-scenes tweak to how umpires are evaluated has tightened the ...

It’s not just the challenges that will be changing baseball forever. Next season, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is hoping to roll out the automated ball-strike challenge system league-wide — a rule ...

How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ...

ATLANTA — Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark wondered Tuesday whether the automated ball-strike system would do well to provide a little grace, a half-inch or so, ...

In a development that many Major League Baseball fans have been calling for for a long while, it was officially announced that the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System will be implemented for the ...

Major League Baseball has long since entered an era when pitchers have seemingly every advantage. Even deliberate efforts by the league to give hitters a leg up have had only baby-step levels of ...