Angel Hernandez is not the worst umpire we have ever seen. We’d give the honor to Ken “The Hatchet” Kaiser or Russ “Rough Guess. Goetz.
But Hernandez’s lingering presence in Our National Pastime was an annoyance. That finally ended this week when he reached a financial settlement with MLB and moved down the trail into retirement.
Managers and players rejoiced.
Umpires are human. They make mistakes. But Hernandez was prone to making spectacularly bad calls, then compounding his blunders by being confrontational with protesters.
