Polarizing MLB umpire Angel Hernandez retiring: report

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Longtime Major League Baseball umpire Angel Hernandez 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 throughout the majors since 2000.

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Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez looks on 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 grown a reputation as one of the worst in the majors, constantly going viral in recent years for some horrendous calls.

Most recently, last month Hernandez came under fire for making, quite literally, some of the worst calls the sport has ever seen.

Hernandez called Texas Rangers rookie Wyatt Langford out on strikes on three straight sliders that were way out of the zone; the called third strike missed the plate by 6.78 inches, according to the Umpire Auditor on X. Of the last 53,000 called third strikes up to that point, it was one was the farthest off the plate, according to Codify, leaving the game announcers speechless.

In that game, Hernandez called seven pitches strikes that had been balls by three-plus inches. According to Umpire Scorecards, of 55 called strikes that day, 12 were actually balls, and some were egregious. That's a 78% hit rate, which is much lower than the 88% average.

Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez works a game between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 6, 2023. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

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