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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article and an accompanying chart misstated the dimensions of the “buffer zone” used to evaluate umpires before this year. That buffer zone should have been ...

SEATTLE — The current MLB strike zone has been in place since 1996. The zone itself has remained unchanged for a generation, but there have been adjustments to rules and protocols that have changed ...