One month is not enough to conclude much in fantasy baseball, but we know the strike zone is smaller by about 11 percent on ...

Major League Baseball broadcasts no longer will use the strike zone box to indicate where the pitch was a ball or a strike, a move that coincides with the league's implementation of the automated ball ...

MLB's Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) is here. Learn more about the history of baseball's strike zone and the evolution of ABS.

Last week, the SEC announced plans to implement the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system, which is in its first ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Major League Baseball will introduce an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System beginning in the 2026 season, allowing players to contest umpire calls on balls and strikes for the ...

Major League Baseball has entered a new era of balls and strikes in 2026. The MLB season will incorporate the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system for the first time. It has already been used ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Walks are up 7.3% as pitches in the strike zone dropped markedly and the average time of games increased by 5 minutes through the first full month of Major League Baseball’s initial ...

The 2026 SEC Baseball Tournament will debut a strike zone challenge system later this month, the league has announced.

MLB's new automated balls and strikes challenge system has unexpectedly shrunk the strike zone and pushed walk rates to their highest in a decade.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Major League Baseball first defined a strike zone in the late 1880s, when the game shifted away from a batter’s ability to call for a “high,” “low” or “fair” pitch at the start of a ...

How the 2026 SEC baseball tournament strike zone challenge system will work.