MLB fines Red Sox manager Farrell for remarks about replay  

Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell has been fined by Major League Baseball for criticizing the new instant replay system being used this season, the New York Daily News reported.

Joe Torre, MLB's executive vice president of baseball operations, told the Daily News on Monday (Tuesday, PHL time) that Farrell would be fined for his critical remarks.

Farrell's comments included saying "it's hard to have any faith in the [replay] system," following instant replay decisions that went against the Red Sox in losses Saturday and Sunday (Sunday and Monday, PHL time) to the New York Yankees.

On Saturday (Sunday, PHL time), a missed replay call was admitted by MLB. On Sunday (Monday, PHL time), another call went against the Red Sox and Farrell believed it was incorrect as well, prompting his post-game comments.

"I'm not going to suspend him. It will be a fine," Torre told the Daily News of Farrell. "I'm sorry about what he said. What I try to do in whatever I do in this job that the commissioner has imported me to do, is basically never forget what it's like to be a player or a manager.

"Part of that never forgetting are the feelings, especially when you're dealing with Red Sox-Yankees games. There is nothing that is insignificant about anything that happens in those games.

"This [replay system] is a three-year rollout. It's probably going to take that long where you get it to where you want it to be. And the only way we're going to find that out is to do what we're doing. It's not perfect." - Reuters