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MLB replay review still makes too many mistakes

Runners on the corners with a run across the plate, or the end of the inning with a zero on the scoreboard. It’s a huge difference.

Major League Baseball first instituted replay review in 2008, over a decade ago. Since then it has expanded from boundary calls like fouls and homers to all sorts of plays around the diamond, and conceptually it can be a great thing for the game. Retaining some of the human element is important, but so is getting calls right when we have the clear ability to do so, and this is a way we can have both.