To uphold or deny?

[johnnyg08]

If umpires didn't "Call time" so often there's no need to "put the ball back in play" and make the appeal process "difficult" I'm not blaming umpires or anything...but I think that's part of why FED made the appeal process so easy and took it out of the umpire's hands (except in SC) to simply call players out on appeal w/o the defense appealing.

I see blatant misses every year for the last 5 years and not one time did the defense appeal...sometimes B/R missing 1B right in front of F3...

I think the appeal rules are pretty good for FED.

[cviverito]

Last season I counted 33 missed bases w/out an 6 bases with appeal. The year before it was a whopping 43 to 2!

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by cviverito

Last season I counted 33 missed bases w/out an 6 bases with appeal. The year before it was a whopping 43 to 2!

That's an amazing stat. 33 more outs...and how many more minutes of game time did those outs cost you. Very interesting post. Thanks.

[cviverito]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

That's an amazing stat. 33 more outs...and how many more minutes of game time did those outs cost you. Very interesting post. Thanks.

I hear ya. But not my concern. My job is to grant and decide on the appeal if the defense requests it...not to draw attention to the mistake.

[greymule]

I think the appeal rules are pretty good for FED.

So do I. Can you imagine the chaos if Fed now switched to the OBR appeals process?

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by cviverito

I hear ya. But not my concern. My job is to grant and decide on the appeal if the defense requests it...not to draw attention to the mistake.

Never said we were drawing attention to anything...just commenting on what I thought was an interesting stat...one that I haven't tracked.