Could balls and strikes in Major League Baseball be soon called by robot umpires? One manager thinks so. Following Game 3 of the World Series on Friday night — where the Cleveland Indians defeated the Chicago Cubs 1-0 — Cubs manager Joe Maddon was asked generally speaking about instant-replays, which included three such instances during […]
For a baseball manager who relies on his iPad for submitting every lineup, Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon had to do it the old fashioned way prior to game Game 4 of the NLCS on Wednesday night. After 90 minutes of talking with tech and IT support, Maddon succumbed to finally calling in his starting […]
Following the success of the MLB’s first experiment with instant replay in 2008, the league is planning to open a second replay center, this time in San Francisco. The first replay center was built in 2008 in the MLB’s Chelsea Market building, and was expanded in 2014 to include 900-square-feet of video monitors and other […]
