Veteran Major League Baseball umpire Ángel Hernández will reportedly retire on Tuesday.
USA Today reports that Hernandez, 62, will hang up his umpiring gear after 34 seasons in the majors.
Hernandez joined the MLB ranks in 1991 as a National League umpire and has been in the majors since 2000.
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Home plate umpire Ángel Hernández watches during the first inning of the game between the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on April 7, 2024. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
Hernandez has earned a reputation as one of the worst in the majors, constantly going viral in recent years for some horrendous decisions.
More recently, Hernandez came under fire last month for literally making some of the worst decisions the sport has ever seen.
Hernández called out Texas Rangers rookie Wyatt Langford with strikes with three consecutive sliders that were well outside the zone; the called third strike missed the plate by 6.78 inches, according to the umpire auditor at words. .
In that game, Hernandez called strikes on seven pitches that had been balls longer than three inches. According to Umpire Scorecards, of 55 strikes called that day, 12 were actually balls and some were atrocious. That's a 78% hit rate, much lower than the average of 88%.
Home plate umpire Ángel Hernández works a game between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium on August 6, 2023. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
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Last year, another viral moment saw him take last place in correct call rate sometime in August.
This season, Umpire Scorecards ranks him 67th out of 85 referees.
Cy Young Award winner CC Sabathia once criticized Hernandez, saying he shouldn't officiate postseason games.
“It's absolutely terrible… it's amazing how he gets a job to officiate these playoff games,” he said in 2018.
As umpires have come under the microscope much more closely, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said late last week that there is a “growing consensus” about using an automated balls-and-strikes system in the majors. , which has been implemented in the minor leagues in some way. since 2019.
Hernandez once accused the league of “manipulating the performance of Mr. Hernandez and other minority referees”, which in turn has prevented more minority referees from becoming team managers.
In March 2021, Hernández lost a lawsuit against Major League Baseball alleging racial discrimination. In the lawsuit, filed in 2017, Hernandez said he had been discriminated against because he had not been assigned to a World Series since 2005 and had not been named crew chief.
MLB umpire Angel Hernandez appears during a game between the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals on June 15, 2019, at Target Field in Minneapolis. (Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images)
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Hernández refereed three All-Star Games, 12 ALDS, eight ALCS and two World Series.
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