Teams will be given three challenges starting in 2014
- Thread starter Heyward
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Russ2dollas
10 yr, $185 million Extension
Personally I'd like 1 challenge. And if you a right then you get your challenge back. If you are wrong, then you are done with challenges.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Yes and No.
I think 3 is too much but glad there will be replays, so many awful calls across baseball.
Would of done 1-2 at most but more the better.
BremanFan88
Playing the Waiting Game
Just imagine 6 challenges being used a game. And why wouldn't you? You can't take them with you to the next game so use them all and hope to get lucky.
Russ2dollas
10 yr, $185 million Extension
no more managers on the filed to argue?
NinersSBChamps
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br> 2015 (Co-Winner)</BR>20
3 is too many. And I am going to miss arguements from managers.
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
IMO MLB would have been better served by doing something about the current umpires.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...nt-replay-manager-challenges-on-hold/2659555/
I think the real question here is how the challenge is going to be called.
Is Fredi going to have a yellow hankie hanging from his belt? Maybe throw his hat on the field? My vote is for a golden baseball that he has to hurl towards the mound.
I think the real question here is how the challenge is going to be called.
Is Fredi going to have a yellow hankie hanging from his belt? Maybe throw his hat on the field? My vote is for a golden baseball that he has to hurl towards the mound.
wheresmykayak
High School Draftee
I don't understand why they can't simply utilize the idea that so many have mentioned before: just add a fifth umpire to every crew that sits in a film room, and reviews any play that seems sketchy.
The idea of challenges might sort of work for football, but baseball is obviously not football. Some games, three challenges are way too many... other games, way too few. Not to mention, is there a penalty for losing one?
The idea of challenges might sort of work for football, but baseball is obviously not football. Some games, three challenges are way too many... other games, way too few. Not to mention, is there a penalty for losing one?
I wonder if this might actually be a way of addressing the problems with the current umpires. If you know there is recourse for players and managers without the risk of being thrown out, then there has been some accountability introduced into the system. Umpires will be more accountable because getting overturned on a regular basis would likely be seen as a problem.
PawPawMaxwell
Called Up to the Major Leagues
Maybe, but it is still to easy for umpires to say inconclusive in too many cases.
Because that's potentially 15 more umpires they would have to hire.
wheresmykayak
High School Draftee
Well, yeah. But those hires would make it more palatable to the Umpires Union, and of course everyone else would appreciate the drastic drop in obviously blown calls. It really shouldn't be as big of an issue, since everyone in baseball just loves to say how the game is more profitable than it has ever been. If that's so, why not invest a small slice of that into improving the quality of the play?
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't shed a tear if they just got rid of every ump and replaced them with robots like Super Baseball 2020 on Neo Geo back in the day. But this just seems like an uninspired solution to a problem that just keeps getting worse and worse every year.
DaneHill
Well-known member
Actually, potentially unlimited challenges after the 6th inning:
"If the manager wins his appeal, he retains the challenge. The challenge from the first six innings does not carry over."
And just a few years ago, they were so worried about the shortening the time of a game. There goes that!
"If the manager wins his appeal, he retains the challenge. The challenge from the first six innings does not carry over."
And just a few years ago, they were so worried about the shortening the time of a game. There goes that!