FS Coach,
I have to agree with my fellow umpires on this topic. The name makes the player, not the number. When I am PU in my games, I tell the coaches to run the changes through me and when they report the change, to give me a name, and not a number.
As a fellow official already refered to, there is a situation in the casebook, saying the name not a number is correct. In closing, the umpires in the situation you brought up made the wrong call.
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