Major League Baseball committee to discuss expanded replay, posteason changes

MLB committee to study expanded replay, postseason

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — Expanded instant replay is on the agenda for the first meeting of a newly formed committee of managers and longtime executives on Thursday.

The 14-member committee also will discuss an expansion of the first round of the playoffs and ways to eliminate lengthy breaks during the postseason.

As owners and general managers met at a mountainside resort on Wednesday, commissioner Bud Selig says he would raise the replay issue.

Following a series of blown calls by umpires during the playoffs, many said baseball should expand video review, which began in 2008 and is limited to whether potential home runs are fair and whether the ball went over the fence.

Selig wouldn’t predict where the replay discussion might lead.