MLB Replay Expanded

[Quake Griffin]

The new system, which will go into effect this season, will give managers most of the power to trigger reviews, by providing them with one challenge per game, along with a second potential challenge if their first is upheld.

Only after a manager has used up all of his challenges, and only from the seventh inning on, would umpires be authorized to initiate a review on their own.

For the first time, calls at first base, at the plate and on the bases will be reviewable. There will be limited exceptions, including the fabled "neighborhood play" at second base. But MLB executive Tony La Russa, one of the architects of the new system, estimated that almost 90 percent of all potential calls are now reviewable.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10305 ... eplay-2014

[UN-Owen]

I think it's only a matter of time before technology is used to determine balls and strikes

[Quake Griffin]

I think it's only a matter of time before technology is used to determine balls and strikes

you're the guy that is for it IIRC.


the owners and players will never agree to that.
will NEVER happen.

[Higga]

I think it's only a matter of time before technology is used to determine balls and strikes

Don't think so. You'd be opening up a pandora's box.

I'm fine with what it'll be now though I guess. Don't like the Manager having so much power but I'd rather more calls be reviewable. And I don't buy the "it'll make the games longer!" argument. Baseball games are already 3+ hours long, what's another 5 minutes to make sure the calls are correct?

[UN-Owen]

I think it's only a matter of time before technology is used to determine balls and strikes

Don't think so. You'd be opening up a pandora's box.

I'm fine with what it'll be now though I guess. Don't like the Manager having so much power but I'd rather more calls be reviewable. And I don't buy the "it'll make the games longer!" argument. Baseball games are already 3+ hours long, what's another 5 minutes to make sure the calls are correct?

It doesn't matter if you think so or not

It's inevitable. At some point technology will eliminate human error when it comes to calling balls and strikes

[UN-Owen]

I think it's only a matter of time before technology is used to determine balls and strikes

you're the guy that is for it IIRC.


the owners and players will never agree to that.
will NEVER happen.

Once the technology has been implemented in a lower league and proves effective, there will be public pressure to instigate the same change at the MLB level

Things evolve. Change happens. Such is the way of the world...


In fact, the current owners and players will eventually be phased out by younger replacements who have grown up in a future age of technology