NEW YORK — Baseball’s strike zone could be getting a slight lift.Major League Baseball is studying whether to raise the bottom of the strike zone from the hollow beneath the kneecap back to the top of the kneecap.“I’m not in a position to predict whether it’s going to happen or not,” Rob Manfred said during an interview with The Associated Press last week on his first anniversary as baseball commissioner. “I think that the interest in the topic is really driven by the fact that if you look over time there has been a …