The MLB Getting Instant Replay

MLB Umpires will now have more assistance with
close calls. Photo credit MLB 

by Jack Ballard

Baseball is having a dramatic change with reviewing plays. Now the MLB will have instant replay starting in the 2014 season. The association took an unanimous vote, witch had a 100 percent approval rate.


"This is really big," Commissioner Bud Selig said "I'm proud of the changes we've made, and I'll tell you why I'm proud of them. Because they won't disturb the game as we know it. Yes, there will be some differences. But because of [MLB Advanced Media], because of our own technology, because of everything else, we've been able to do this."

Until this next season instant replay was only allowed on home run plays. But now, about 90 percent of plays will be reviewed. This is a huge milestone, that still has some work, express in this quote.

"This is historic and, as you can tell, quite complex," Schuerholz said. "Every time we peeled back one layer of the onion, we found more complexities. That's why it has changed so from the last time we talked about it to where we have finally settled,
this is a start. This is a great, giant step. It is in three phases. We'll check on how well we did after Year 1, again after Year 2. And after Year 3, we expect to be as near to perfection as we humans can get."

With this new rule, baseball will be a more fair, tightly monitored game.