After years and years and YEARS of MLB fans calling for the league to get rid of much-criticized umpire Angel Hernandez, the guy who’s been the focus of so much ire is done with baseball.
Per USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale: “Ángel Hernández, the polarizing veteran umpire who hasactually drawn the rage and exasperation from gamers, supervisors and fans alike over 3 years, is retiring Tuesday from Major League Baseball, a high-ranking baseball authorities informed USA TODAY Sports. … MLB and Hernández had invested the past 2 weeks negotiating a monetary settlement before reaching a resolution over the weekend.”
Hernandez made dreadful call after awful call in his period, with ejections of all sorts exasperating everybody all over the videogame, and while there haveactually been other cases of umpires who haveactually drawn ire, it hadactually gotten to the point with Hernandez where he was the poster kid of bad refereeing in sports.
Fans had a lot to share on X (formerly Twitter):
In honor of Angel Hernandez retiring, here’s one of his extremely best calls.
pic.twitter.com/oN97QoYA4D— Fireside Yankees (@FiresideYankees) May 28, 2024
In honor of Angel Hernandez retiring, enjoy this compilation of him making trash calls. pic.twitter.com/xyCVmmG5BG
— Baseball King (@BasebaIlKing) May 28, 2024
Angel Hernandez is retiring after years of “service” to the baseball neighborhood. May this post be as inc