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2011 MLB Season Discussion

Even if they slowly want to implement replay, I would be fine with it, but isn't it the Minor leagues that has an Umpire (Or someone) in a booth with a TV looking at this stuff and it only takes but 30 seconds to minute to review a play and then send a call down to the umpire? I want that in MLB. It doesn't take long, it improves the game, and I think in the short run it makes everyone happy.
 
It's college baseball, I think, but I absolutely agree with you. That's the kind of system I'd like MLB to adopt.
 
Skywalker said:
It's college baseball, I think, but I absolutely agree with you. That's the kind of system I'd like MLB to adopt.
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It is College Baseball, as I was thinking this happened during the College World Series tournament. It's not hard to implement and I don't understand why they haven't done it yet.
 
Don't they have some limited amount of instant replay to review home runs, in MLB?
 
The Jays have done some impressive wheeling and dealing today. In short:

Jason Frasor and Zach Stewart to the White Sox for Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen, Jackson, Corey Patterson, Octavio Dotel and Marc Rzepczynski to the Cardinals for Colby Rasmus, Brian Tallet, Trevor Miller, and P.J. Walters.

Clearly, this was all about Rasmus. We did give up a very good young prospect in Stewart in all this, but get a center fielder with all-star potential out of it, so I think it was worth it. Yeah, our bullpen is weaker for it (and joy of joys, Brian Tallet returns "home"), but this team won't be a contender until next year at the earlier, and the 'pen is relatively easy to improve through free agency.

Once again, I stand impressed by Alex Anthopoulos. If Rogers ponies up some money for free agents in the offseason, then this team is definitely going places.
 
Corey Patterson.
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^ I can't help but feel sorry for the guy. His career certainly never panned out how people expected it to.

That said, definitely an upgrade for us in center field. ;) Snider-Rasmus-Bautista sounds pretty good to me.
 
Canadave said:
^ I can't help but feel sorry for the guy. His career certainly never panned out how people expected it to.
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Eh, he was never that good, even in the minors -- yeah, he's fast, and he used to have some power (that disappeared after 2004), but he's never had any strike zone judgment. Once he showed the world that he'll swing at anything within the same ZIP code as home plate, he was exposed as a one-dimensional player (he's not too far off from averaging a strikeout per game over his career). And, at the end of the day, he has no interest in even pondering the concept of drawing a walk. He's basically Alfonso Soriano without the power.
 
tomalak301 said:
Even if they slowly want to implement replay, I would be fine with it, but isn't it the Minor leagues that has an Umpire (Or someone) in a booth with a TV looking at this stuff and it only takes but 30 seconds to minute to review a play and then send a call down to the umpire? I want that in MLB. It doesn't take long, it improves the game, and I think in the short run it makes everyone happy.
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I can buy that, under the condition that the replay being used for review is also played on the jumbo-tron for all to see, in the stadia that have them.

But what's to stop the managers from wanting to have every play or every pitch reviewed by this Cellar Ump?
 
Alright, so what should and should not be open to replay review in our minds?

I'd think close plays at the plate for sure, at bases probably, balls hit down the line possibly, balls and strikes not.

What would ensure that it is granted fairly? A challenge flag like in gridiron football?
 
SVD said:
tomalak301 said:
Even if they slowly want to implement replay, I would be fine with it, but isn't it the Minor leagues that has an Umpire (Or someone) in a booth with a TV looking at this stuff and it only takes but 30 seconds to minute to review a play and then send a call down to the umpire? I want that in MLB. It doesn't take long, it improves the game, and I think in the short run it makes everyone happy.
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I can buy that, under the condition that the replay being used for review is also played on the jumbo-tron for all to see, in the stadia that have them.

But what's to stop the managers from wanting to have every play or every pitch reviewed by this Cellar Ump?
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Oh, it's easy to make rules to regulate that. I always like the NFL approach of giving challenges to managers in such instances, but then you can add instances like plays at the plate, or walk offs, or anything else that might actually decide a game like last night.

I think the thing that really pissed me off about last night's game is that a game like that was decided by the Ump and not by those who actually played. It's like a final game of the world series being decided that way instead of keeping the umps out of it. How that game ended (And for those who watched all 6.5 hours of it this applies more than me) was aboslutely crap.
 
AdmiralGarak said:
Fucking outrageous.

Absolutely fucking outrageous. That's as bad a call as I've ever seen. What a disgraceful way for an umpire to ruin a 19 inning game.
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I watched that game on ROOTSPORTS from start to finish and I was ABSOLUTEWLY pissed!!! Meals comment was contedictory too!..."I saw the tag.(PERIOD) At first I thought he Ole'd him....."...So which was it? You saw a tag or you didn't see the tag??!?!...:scream:
 
tomalak301 said:
I think the thing that really pissed me off about last night's game is that a game like that was decided by the Ump and not by those who actually played. It's like a final game of the world series being decided that way instead of keeping the umps out of it. How that game ended (And for those who watched all 6.5 hours of it this applies more than me) was aboslutely crap.
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The thing that bugged me is it wasn't the typical blown call. Normally, it's an amazing play the umpire misses because 9 out of 10 times it goes the other way. This play was routine and 9 out of 10 times would have been called an out. He didn't even anticipate something that didn't happen, he seemed to have just dozed off when the tag was applied.
 
I feel sorry for Pirates fans. I sat there slack jawed for about an hour after the game ended last night. Total blown call.
 
Getting Rasmus is a good deal for Toronto, even though some of his alleged attitude issues worry me.

All we basically give up is Frasor and Stewart. Dotel and Rzepczynski have been non-factors and Patterson is the latest Toronto version of Reed Johnson.
 
^ Yeah, we'll see. Though people said the same thing about Escobar, and it looks like he may turn into a cornerstone for this team. Ditto Brett Lawrie.

Hell, people said the same thing about Dion Phaneuf, too, if you want an example from another sport. ;)
 
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