Phillies: Larry Andersen OK with new rule if another sunsets
By Matt Rappa
The Phillies broadcast team talks how instant replay should change in MLB
Franzke said he thinks the umpires should be given some bit of credit for what they are doing: “We can’t just dispute every single close call with, ‘Hold on one second, we’re going to take a look at that.'”
Frandsen said he is not a fan of how managers take a significant amount of time to even decide if they want to challenge a call.
“I still think for the manager to be in that role still, I think they should be right away telling, ‘replay,'” he said. “Nothing from the back and nothing telling them that they have to do it. If they want a replay, right away. That’s it.”
“Within five seconds, you have to say ‘replay that.'”
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Jackson agreed, saying, that way, the managers might just want to only inquire for a replay on “obvious mistakes.”
Last season alone, including the postseason, there were more than 1,400 challenges across Major League Baseball, according to Baseball Savant; only 112 were on home run calls, what instant replays started out as just months before the Phillies won their second-ever World Series championship.
Frandsen went on to note that “so many of the greatest managers we’ve ever seen,” before instant replay was even a possibility in Major League Baseball, were able to argue really close plays that they ended up being right on.
“They’re right out there right away,” he continued. “This would engage them instead of being like, ‘Hey, hang on, I got someone else deciding for me.’ No; you’re the manager. You are the ultimate leader of your team.”
“You make that decision right away. That manager would be the decider.”
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Franzke is in favor of the idea to help speed up the instant replay process, adding it would “really force a manager to stick his neck out.” Frandsen also suggested the idea that the league should have a red-light/green-light system, where MLB headquarters could communicate the final decision faster with umpires.
“I think for a lot of managers,” Franzke said, “we just go back to the way it was where, ‘If it’s worth me running out onto the field to argue, then maybe it’s worth me saying, ‘All right, let’s check it,’ instead of going to the room and calling.”