MLB \\ Overturned Calls April 2022

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[@Lil-Bear82]

MLB really needs to get a handle on all these bad calls...it's ruining baseball.

[@AssumedPseudonym]

Agreed. We don’t need a league full of Angel Hernandez and C. B. Bucknor. Replay can fix bad calls to an extent, but that’s also part of the problem: The umpires know that, so there’s potentially less incentive to make sure you have the call right on the field. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that all umpires are bad or sloppy. There are absolutely umpires who take their job with the utmost seriousness and do a damned good job of it. Don’t ask me to name any of them, because I can’t. Which is the whole point. You don’t hear complaints about the good umpires, and the only time you really hear an umpire’s name is when they screw up either consistently or spectacularly. (…Or have a particularly memorable strike three call. Lookin’ at you, Tom Hallion.) (Pardon the rambling. I should not be allowed near a keyboard before I’m properly caffeinated. .>

[@almostfm]

A lot of these aren't egregious misses, and they come down to how umpires are trained, vs. what MLB says constitutes a "catch" on a force play. Umpires are taught to watch the feet, and listen for the sound of the ball hitting the glove. But according to MLB, as soon as the ball is inside the glove (whether it's hit the back of the glove or not) it's considered caught.

[@8stormy5]

That's what the challenge is there for. There's only so much you can do to ensure calls are as accurate as possible, and unlike with strike zones you can't exactly have a robot do it for you yet.

[@Jay91150]

If we're going to let umpires have mics now, we need Wes McAuley to give them Dramatic Announcement lessons.

[@AssumedPseudonym]

I would have loved to have heard Joe West on the mic for one of these.

[@Jrobert619]

U need to make these longer and show them asking for the replay