J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

Major League Baseball is testing a new system that allows players to challenge a home plate umpire's call ... He's a former MLB player and an analyst for ESPN.

If you have tuned in for any of the spring training games thus far, you’ve probably noticed that MLB has started testing ... took exception when home plate umpire Nate Tomlinson rung him up ...

Pawol last year became the first woman to umpire a big league spring training ... and will be part of Mark Wegner’s crew. MLB has 76 full-time staff umpires, and uses fill-ins on crews for ...

The pitch tracker on MLB's Gameday agreed with the umpire and ABS that the seventh pitch of the at-bat was far above the strike zone. But to be fair, Orze did get Chisholm to chase a fastball high ...