Bailey is the game's best strike-stealer. With the "buffer" zone shrinking, his framing skills could be mitigated.

An adjustment in how umpires are graded has impacted ball-strike calls during the season’s first month, leaving players to ...

Featuring cameos from numerous softball legends (including the late Kevin Herlihy), Strike Zone is a love-letter to the game from director and NZ under-16 pitcher Cameron Duncan. Duncan stars as a ...

Where umpires used to have a “buffer zone” around the strike zone that gave them a couple inches to work with in the way they were graded, that has now shrunk significantly. Though the zone ...