Angel Hernandez Is Retiring Tuesday 5/28/2024

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Thank Christ.

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From Ken Rosenthal earlier.
Sorry for the copy/paste job.



Baseball’s most controversial umpire is calling it a career. Angel Hernandez, who has been criticized by many in the game for decades, will retire.
MLB first approached Hernandez’s about the possibility of retiring earlier this season, according a baseball source. The criticism had gotten louder, and Hernandez was amenable to moving on. He hasn’t umped a game since May 9, as the two sides worked out a financial agreement.
“He was NOT forced out,” Hernandez’s lawyer, Kevin Murphy, told The Athletic via text message. His departure is expected to happen immediately.
Hernandez umped his first MLB game in 1991. Over the last decade, he’s been a constant source of controversy. From his large and inconsistent strike zone, to his quick ejections, to unsuccessfully suing MLB for discrimination in 2017, he’s created headlines in a profession where most prefer to not be noticed.

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USA Today first reported his retirement. Shortly after the news broke Monday night, MLB released a statement from Hernandez confirming his retirement.
“Starting with my first Major League game in 1991, I have had the very good experience of living out my childhood dream of umpiring in the major leagues,” the statement read. “There is nothing better than working at a profession that you enjoy. I treasured the camaraderie of my colleagues and the friendships I have made along the way, including our locker room attendants in all the various cities.I have decided that I want to spend more time with my family. Needless to say, there have been many positive changes in the game of baseball since I first entered the profession. This includes the expansion and promotion of minorities. I am proud that I was able to be an active participant in that goal while being a Major League umpire.”
Beyond what Hernandez referenced in his statement, it is unclear what led Hernandez’s decision, though it’s possible the vitriol directed his way played a role.
“What hurts him the most,” Murphy told The Athletic in a recent profile, “is the pain that his two daughters and his wife go through when they know (the criticism) is so unbelievably undeserved.”
Part of the reason the league approached Hernandez was the consistent distraction he caused. Players around the game have long called for Hernandez to leave the industry.
“Every year. It’s the same story,” Bryce Harper said last season. “Same thing.”
“He needs to find another job,” Ian Kinsler said in 2017.
“I don’t understand why he’s doing these games,” C.C. Sabathia said in 2018.
Even MLB was critical of Hernandez, though that criticism largely came through court filings. They stated that his decision making and handling of conflicts prevented him from getting promoted to a full-time crew chief position.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred alluded to the retirement process for umpires while speaking to reporters at MLB’s owners meetings last week, though he didn’t directly mention Hernandez.
“The management of umpires is … a physically demanding job,” Manfred said. “It goes beyond just the evaluation, training and discipline. It also goes to things like thinking about their career path, how long should they be out there? And that implicates things like your retirement program.”

[DrunkHorseplayer]

Looks like all the pressure got to him, either that or MLB paid him huge money to leave.

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[VeggieDog]

Today should be a national holiday.

[trobin31]

Came across an X thread w his top 10 worst calls, pretty funny stuff

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

It's happy day in the MLB!

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Ángel Hernández is retiring: A look at his most memorably infamous umpiring calls

\JIM REINEKING, USA TODAY
Updated May 28, 2024


Much-maligned umpire Ángel Hernández is retiring from Major League Baseball, a high-ranking baseball official told USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale on Monday.

News of the controversial umpire's retirement was met with almost universal glee from baseball fans who were tired of Hernández's repeated missed calls

(Hernandez worked only 10 games during the 2023 season because of a back injury,
but he missed 161 calls,
according to Umpire Auditor. That's bad!).

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Angel Hernandez needs to pipe down.
It's not a race thing, it's you suck as an umpire thing.

Like it or not, we're living in the analytics era and pretty much every umpire metric shows Hernandez was/is the worst ball/strike caller that ever lived

Angel is lucky he had a strong union behind him and a jelly fish spined Commissioner, who even though isn't technically responsible for hiring and firing umpires, could have used his office to at least speak up about the shitty job Hernandez was doing.

Oh sure, Manfred is great at implementing half-baked new game rules, but doesn't seem to think the umpiring situation is a problem.

If my job performance reviews looked remotely as bad as Hernandez, I would have been shit canned twenty times over by now and living in a van down by the river someplace.

The worst thing of it all is, Hermandez's pension is like 40 times greater than mine is, and he gets to sit on a beach for the rest of his life sipping cocktails with little umbrellas in them.

[Mr KLC]

Tells me that MLB and the union are not in favor of the automated strike zone. "Retiring" Hernandez from the ranks, in the middle of the season no less, takes away a major lightning rod in the public eye of voting for it.

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CB picking up where Angel left off.

CB just wants to go home.

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‘Social media firestorm’ led to umpire Angel Hernandez’s sudden MLB retirement (msn.com)

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