Last night in Detroit there were two home run calls that went to replay. Both overruled the original call, and both got the call right in the end. The more replay proves to be successful with home run calls (as it has been), the more pressure there will be to expand replay to plays at home, a called third strike or what have you.
Replay was added late last season strictly for home run calls because in a matter of a couple of weeks there were several blown home run calls. It's only a matter of time until there is a playoff series that has 2 plays at the plate called wrong. If that's the case, how could MLB reason that there shouldn't be replay on calls at the plate? So far they've has done a nice job on strictly keeping replay to home run calls, but in the end people are going to want the call to be right. Baseball is a game deep in tradition and umpires are tightly woven into that. Broadening replay by no means getting rid of umpires, but it'd be very hard to reason not expanding replay if calls are called wrong on plays other than home runs.
It could be next offseason, in 5 years or in 10 years but at some point replay is going to be expanded. I just hope it's not my team that gets called out at the plate in the World Series when he really was safe, causing MLB to make a change.
What say all of you. Expand replay to more than just home run calls, yay or nay?
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