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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
In return for instant replay challenges, MLB managers… stay on the bench
So, instead of having time-wasting meetings of managers and coaches going to the mound to strategize in the middle of an inning (we don’t see this in any other sports… instead, they have to call a timeout… and you are limited to the number of timeouts), the manager keeps his butt in the dugout.
Leave the time-wasting to replay reviews. In effect, transferring the defacto timeout of the manager walking to the mound into an actual timeout that is the replay challenge. And while we are at it, no more indiscriminate mid-inning relief changes. Either give the batter a 1-0 count, or heck, make it cost the manager one of his replay challenges.
Problem, solved.