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 ...

MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been judged with a two-inch “buffer zone,” which essentially gave them that much leeway when it came to being judged on ...

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