During his 13-year career as an All-Star catcher, Mike Scioscia earned a reputation for being as tough as anyone when it came to blocking home plate. But in a sport filled with nostalgia, even ...

Major League Baseball instituted a new rule (7.13) this season that was designed to protect catchers from dangerous and unnecessary collisions at home plate. The "Buster Posey Rule" -- as it has been ...

KUSA - The NFL isn't the only league taking a look at big time collisions and how they affect players. Normally baseball isn't considered a contact sport, but ask any catcher and he'll tell you: when ...

VIERA, Fla. — The representatives from Major League Baseball could start making their rounds any day now, traveling across Florida and Arizona in an attempt to explain the proposed removal of danger ...

NEW YORK – Major League Baseball and its players have banned most home plate collisions but left open an exception if the catcher has the ball and is blocking the runner’s direct path to home plate. A ...

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