MLB botched another replay on Sunday to steal away yet another run from the Oakland A’s, and this might have been the worst one we’ve seen yet.
This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about the replay review system this season. It’s wildly inconsistent in its application and makes an astonishingly high number of mistakes for a system whose entire purpose is to mitigate mistakes. This latest example doesn’t add anything new except another data point, but with each egregious error the case becomes clearer that the system isn’t working and needs to be reformed.
Before we continue, let’s clarify the point.