Great question. The Athletic published a player poll on Wednesday, asking 134 respondents if they’re in favor of “robo-umps” ...

Despite the general success of the ABS challenge system in spring training this year, some players within Major League ...

MLB changed how its home plate umpires are evaluated on their calls of balls and strikes. MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been judged with a two-inch ...

The Chicago Cubs-Philadelphia Phillies game on Monday was a standard close battle between contenders, until it wasn't. Three-time All-Star Kyle Tucker broke the ice with a 387-foot solo homer to right ...

At least one team suspected that umpires had been given instructions to crack down and call the rule more strictly. But in a statement to Yahoo Sports, MLB said: “There has been no change to the ...

While the use of the ABS challenge system during spring training seemed to go smoothly, it does not have a unanimously positive rating among MLB players ... an umpire's call with a gesture ...

PHOENIX — For more than 150 years, the game of baseball has relied on humans behind home plate to call balls ... pace of rule changes has sped up since Rob Manfred took over as MLB commissioner ...

An MLB official confirmed that the buffer zone had decreased in size. The intent of the buffer zone change is simple: to call the rulebook strike zone more accurately. But the real-life impact ...

You may have noticed an uptick in out calls at home plate getting overturned on review lately, with the mic’d-up umpires talking about violations of the collision rule or home plate blocking.