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[Mike in STL]

Just saw this on twitter. Each team will get two challenges. Most importantly, ballparks can show all replays now, even ones not being challenged. If that's the case for balls and strikes, umpires need to step their game up.

[Mike in STL]

Actually sounds like if they are correct on the first challenge they get the second. Looks like most everything can be challenged except balls and strikes, and conveniently, if 2nd base was touched on a double play. Unofficial Neighborhood rule still in effect.

[Oriole85]

Just saw this on twitter. Each team will get two challenges. Most importantly, ballparks can show all replays now, even ones not being challenged. If that's the case for balls and strikes, umpires need to step their game up.

That's generally good. It's always annoying when you are at the game and they don't show it. The only bad thing about it IMO is when a bad call happens, I don't want to see games delayed like the Braves WC game was a few years ago because some fans feel the injustices were so bad they need to throw their beer on the field.

[Oriole85]

Actually sounds like if they are correct on the first challenge they get the second. Looks like most everything can be challenged except balls and strikes, and conveniently, if 2nd base was touched on a double play. Unofficial Neighborhood rule still in effect.

Yeah don't like that, but whatever.

[SportsGuy]

http://espn.go.com/m...ded-replay-2014

[Oriole85]

http://espn.go.com/m...ded-replay-2014

I'd like to see a replay official instead of the crew chief similar to the NFL be able to call for a replay after 7th inning similar to the two-minute warning in the NFL.

[Greg Pappas]

http://espn.go.com/m...ded-replay-2014

 

In addition to home runs, the following plays will now be subject to review: ground-rule doubles; fan interference; stadium boundary calls; force plays (except a fielder's touching of second base on a double play); tag plays; fair/foul balls in the outfield only; trap plays in the outfield only; hit batters; timing plays (whether a runner scores before a third out); touching a base (only when appealed); passing runners and record keeping (ball-strike counts to batters, outs, score and substitutions).

 

I don't know why it bothers me as much as it does, but why is this phantom play at 2B allowed AT ALL, and even so much as to be EXCLUDED from replay review? It's baffling to me that this sort of lax and lazy non-call is a recognized part of the game. 

[Mike in STL]

I don't know why it bothers me as much as it does, but why is this phantom play at 2B allowed AT ALL, and even so much as to be EXCLUDED from replay review? It's baffling to me that this sort of lax and lazy non-call is a recognized part of the game. 

Buzz words of sports in the 21st century. "Player safety". It's the only excuse I can think of. They don't want guys getting spiked in the knee caps. 

[SportsGuy]

Buzz words of sports in the 21st century. "Player safety". It's the only excuse I can think of. They don't want guys getting spiked in the knee caps. 

Safety is the reasoning.

[Mackus]

I hate the challenge part, but like it better than no replay at all.

 

And no challenges on phantom tags is amazing.  Can't believe they are leaving that out.  I guess they think it's as quirky as an umpire's personal strike zone, and don't wanna eliminate it.

[Oriole85]

From ESPN

• Teams will be allowed to station a "video specialist" in the clubhouse to look for potential challenges, and would be able to communicate with the dugout via a hotline-type phone. But no monitors or video equipment would be allowed in the dugout itself.

[Oriole85]

ESPN: Managers get to try replay in spring

 

http://espn.go.com/m...ct-spring-games

 

Major league teams will each have at least five games this spring where managers can challenge plays as part of the major expansion of instant replay which begins this season.

 

The new rules allow each team to challenge one call a game. If the manager wins the first one, he'll earn another challenge. The crew chief can request a review after the seventh inning if the manager has used his challenges.

[Oriole85]

ESPN: Plate collision rules coming Monday

 

http://espn.go.com/m...idelines-monday

 

Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon said there doesn't appear to be a radical change to existing guidelines, noting catchers still will be able to block the plate if the ball arrives in time.

"The general spirit of it is you don't want a collision intentionally initiated by the baserunner. That's what it sounds like to me," Maddon said.

Home plate collisions also will be subject to review, however they won't cost a manager a challenge under the new system.

"It's going to cost you a challenge if you're challenging safe or out. But if it's the collision part of it, if it's going to be a violation, then that is going to be looked at the same as the home run (replay). ... The only thing different is the (umpires) are not going to leave the field, you're going to get everything from New York," Torre said.

[BSLMikeLowe]

ESPN: Managers aren't sweating replay

 

“Let me tell you,” said the Orioles’ ever-meticulous Buck Showalter. “Everybody’s talking about how we’re going to get second-guessed. But I don’t think that’s going to be the case.”

 

And the reason, he said, is simple.

 

“If you know you’re right before you go out there,” Showalter said, “where’s the strategy?”

 

“I’m going to tell you what. If there’s a chance to overturn something in the first inning, I’m going,” he said. “You don’t know, in the second inning, what that brings. And then in the third inning, if I got the first one right, if it happens two outs later, I’m going again, because I don’t know what’s going to happen. They’re telling us there’s only one missed call every so many games. So why wouldn't I go in the first inning?

 

“You’re telling me that outs are more important in the seventh, eighth, ninth innings than in the first or second?” Showalter wondered. “Why?”

 

The point being that according to MLB research, there's only one play in every 6.5 games where there is enough video evidence to overturn a call....so about 2 times a day among all games played. So yeah, if you're fairly certain you're right, you challenge whether it's 1st Inning or 9th.

 

Count me among those who hate the "in the neighborhood" rule on turning DPs....but I do understand the safety concern.

[Oriole85]

ESPN: John Schuerholz confident in replay

 

Schuerholz said he wasn't able to specify how far along MLB was in getting the New York replay center ready, but he expressed doubts that any reviews would be handled out of the center during spring training.

[Oriole85]

CBS Sports: Dodgers, D-Backs will not have expanded replay for Australia games

 

According to the Associated Press, the Dodgers and Diamondbacks will not have access to baseball's new expanded replay system when they open their season with a two-game series in Australia later this month. The technology MLB is using simply will not be in place for the games.

It's 2014 figure out a way to make this game have the same capabilities of every other game this year.

[DJ MC]

CBS Sports: Dodgers, D-Backs will not have expanded replay for Australia games

 

It's 2014 figure out a way to make this game have the same capabilities of every other game this year.

 

Seriously. I know you can't have a thrice-backed-up, hard-wired, perfect connection, but they do have goddamn transoceanic TELEPHONE LINES to Australia. Or, you know, do it like the spring training games where everything is on-site. I'm sure you can stow Joe Torre in the Qantas storage compartment.

 

If a major call gets blown because of this, somebody needs to get a booting.

[DJ MC]

Inside look at MLB's new instant-replay bunker

[DJ MC]

We all saw this coming with the replay challenge system

 

Of course, why a totally defensible, but ultimately unsuccessful challenge on one play deprives a manager of a challenge on a wholly unrelated play is utterly beyond me. Why umpires — or anyone — can’t initiate review of plays that are clearly botched before the seventh inning is likewise beyond me. Why Bruce Bochy and the Giants have to bear the burden of fixing the umpire’s mistakes — and do so in a manner that requires game show-like calculation and management of scarce, gimmicky resources — is so far beyond me that I’d get jet lag if I had to go visit it. Baseball sold the challenge system on its “uniqueness and charm.” This was certainly unique, but not at all charming.

[SBTarheel]

Terrible last night with that Giants/D'Backs debacle..

 

Also, I don't like how managers aren't really even going out to argue anymore, they're going out simply to buy time for the replay guy to check the play...Baseball is slow enough at times, we don't need more delays..

 

Like in College Hoops now, there's a damn stoppage of play every 15 seconds now every time a ball goes out of bounds..

 

This kind of stuff does NOT play well on TV. 

 

FIX IT!