MLB to Expand Instant Replay.....?

[Steven Tyler]

The ump giveth, and the ump taketh away.

Johan Santana, "Come on down". This your lucky day.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

The ump giveth, and the ump taketh away.

Johan Santana, "Come on down". This your lucky day.

Yeah, that ball got all chalk!

[tmagan]

You know what will happen in a Beltran situation? The Cardinal's dugout would tell Beltran to step out of the batter's box until the people in the command center would have enough time to see the play.

[eyezen]

Originally Posted by tmagan

You know what will happen in a Beltran situation? The Cardinal's dugout would tell Beltran to step out of the batter's box until the people in the command center would have enough time to see the play.

And if it was ruled fair, then what?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by eyezen

And if it was ruled fair, then what?

Changing fair to foul will not be difficult. Changing foul to fair (except over the fence) will be a mess... so if they go to replay on this kind of call, umpires will be encouraged to call anything close fair.

[D Ray]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Changing fair to foul will not be difficult. Changing foul to fair (except over the fence) will be a mess... so if they go to replay on this kind of call, umpires will be encouraged to call anything close fair.

Agreed. It will make it like high school football is now. Televised football games have replay, so officials are taught to withhold whistles on close plays. With MLB replay they will be encouraged to rule fair, then let the camera sort it out. The rest of us will have to do it the old fashioned way. Make me wonder how this will effect MiLB umpires. Perhaps they will use replay at AAA also, so those on the cusp will get used to how the big boys do it.

Whole lot simpler and cheaper to shun the monitor to make the call in the first place.

[D Ray]

Originally Posted by SafeOutReplay

Won't happen. The conversion rate from AAA to MLB is too small to make this extension feasible for the money involved.

Agreed, which makes the whole issue a slippery slope. The MLB guys working under enhanced, ever present replay of the future will have to learn on the job how to call individual plays so that replay CAN correct. The rest of us will keep doing as trained, bust a$$, get to the best spot, make the best (sometimes wrong) call and move on. The whole replay concept sucks, especially in baseball.

[tmagan]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Changing fair to foul will not be difficult. Changing foul to fair (except over the fence) will be a mess... so if they go to replay on this kind of call, umpires will be encouraged to call anything close fair.

Makes sense, although I would think that going from foul to fair, MLB will probably make it an automatic ground rule double.

[tmagan]

If fair/foul is reviewable, does that mean that a batted ball that might have hit the batter in the box but is fielded in fair territory by the pitcher becomes reviewable if the on-field ruling is that it didn't hit the batter in the batter's box?

[tmagan]

Originally Posted by eyezen

And if it was ruled fair, then what?

Then Terry Collins will tell the catcher to visit the mound to stall for time so that the command center will see it.