Rob Manfred says MLB will propose automated ball-strike challenge system for use at the big-league level Could an automated ball-strike challenge system be coming to MLB next season?

Of those 98, only 4.95% of the time the umpire will call a strike. That’s about five pitches per game an umpire calls a strike on a pitch out of the zone.

Even if the zone is tighter, it has not boosted offense. The league as a whole was hitting .242/.316/.392 and averaging 4.34 runs per game entering play Thursday.

The buffer zone has now shrunk to ¾ of an inch — effectively pushing umpires to call their zones tighter. “The rulebook strike zone has not changed and we have not instructed umpires to call ...

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MLB has used an automated strike zone in the minors since 2019, though there are two types of systems. One system is used by umpires on every pitch while the other system gives teams two or three ...

A quick recap: Until this season, umpires were given a passing grade on ball-and-strike calls within 2 inches of the actual zone, and now that buffer zone has shrunk to three-quarters of an inch ...