Interesting IR article last Wednesday....

[Thunderheads]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/stark_jayson/id/10046815/the-many-questions-surrounding-expanded-replay-mlb

[ricka56]

They don't want to hire 17 new umpires.

That might cost approx $2 million. In 2012 MLB revenue was $7.2 billion.

This new expense would be approx 0.03% of revenue...that's too expensive ?  

 

If the yankees could get rid of A-Fraud, they could cover this cost for 50 years.

[grayhawk]

"But officials of several teams say they were told it's possible the replay room could also be populated by some non-umpires -- who could be anyone from video experts to former players."

 

Can you even imagine having a non-umpire reviewing a call?  Seriously?  I don't think the MLB umpires would ever agree to that.

[Thunderheads]

"But officials of several teams say they were told it's possible the replay room could also be populated by some non-umpires -- who could be anyone from video experts to former players."

 

Can you even imagine having a non-umpire reviewing a call?  Seriously?  I don't think the MLB umpires would ever agree to that.

never!

[umpstu]

A whole new can of worms, huh? If I were an MLB umpire I would only approve this if it were umpires in the replay center. 

[zm1283]

The comments at the bottom of that article, except for a few, are a giant facepalm.  Those are your fans, baseball.