ESPN’s Outside the Lines did a study on umpiring and MLB, examining how many close calls the umpires got right and wrong.  They found in the very small sample size that umpires blew 20% of the close calls- not 20% of calls, but 20% of the calls that could have been questioned.  That probably isn’t that many calls, and perhaps not even one per game. Still, as many an umpire has pointed out, and as Bruce Bochy says in this article, all the umpires just want to get the call right- and creating a method for them to do that is the only thing that is right.

I am mean, would you want to be given a task at your job where you knew there was no way to complete it 100% accurately?  Nope.  So, now that the tools exist to help them do their job better, why not let them use them.  What if accountants weren’t allowed to use calculators?   That would be stupid.

So forget that Tommy Lasorda wants the game to stay the way it has always been.  Someone needs to tell Tommy that the Dodgers don’t play in Brooklyn anymore.