The WORST Umpire In Baseball History
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Angel Hernandez is the worst umpire in baseball history.
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Is he the same umpire that officiated Game 3 between the Astros and the Yankees in the playoffs this year? That umpire was atrocious! He consistently called about 65 pitches that he ruled as "strikes" against the Astros hitters that he ruled as "balls" against the Yankees hitters! A couple of the pitches that Christian Javier threw were perfect strikes that landed nearly dead in the middle of the strike zone and he ruled them as "balls!" Lucky for the Astros they were clearly the much better hitting and pitching team that night or else they would have lost the game to the Yankees! That umpire tried really hard to cheat for the Yankees that night! He has no business officiating games in any level of baseball, never mind the MLB level!
He seems like an awful human being who happens to be an umpire
😂😂😂
If Angel Hernandez were a cop, he'd write a ticket to people who drove through a green light
Good analogy.
There are bad cops teachers mfg workers that hid behind the union
I think he needs glasses or something. It would be hard to wear them behind the mask though, so he won't say anything. The MLB probably wouldn't let him do that. He could be a 1st or 3rd base umpire though.
Or for going the speed limit
If Angel Hernandez were a cop, he would be very good at using his knee
When the team benefitting from the bad calls is asking, "What are you doing?" You know he's bad.
Bad....or rigging the game. There’s definitely something going on behind the scenes with this guy, if he’s constantly calling bad plays when they’re obvious to everyone else.
There’s corruption with the MLB and the union that protects him. Just like it’s an open secret that boxers throw their fights at times or prolong the fights because there’s a lot of money behind the scenes exchanging hands, I have no doubt it’s the same with other sports like baseball. No doubt in my mind, Hernandez was intentionally calling bad plays and rigging games. Probably lining his pockets with a piece of that pie too.
@@Cr1ms0nRav3n I suspect MLB knew about the steroids and continued to line their pockets before they got called out on it.
@@stuartholden6163 oh definitely.
His ego ruins the game, get rid of him.
The best umpires go unnoticed.
Angel not only makes shit calls, he does everything in his power to make the game about himself
yep, it’s terrible
He learned that from Joe west
Too true
True.
You are 100% correct!
When MLB phoned Hernandez to ump a WS game, Angel missed the call.
HAHA! Good one!
LOL...
I see what you did there. LOL.
LOLOLOLOL!!
lmfao
The biggest stars in baseball need to inform they won't play if Angel is one of the umpires and pay any fines resulting from it. They can afford it. If Ohtani wouldn't come on the field, if Angel was on it, he'd be gone in a minute.
There was one time where Angel made a genuinely great call and I didn’t believe it until they showed the play in super slow motion 😂
Rolling Sir!😂
Even a blind squirrel ...
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I think if robotic umpires become a thing, then they should be given an acronym that spells ANGEL , so everyone will always know who made them necessary.
All N_____s Gaming Entertainment League
Ha! That's great!
@@bigharrykochenbauls4567 nachos
Automated, Non Garbage, Examining Laser. That's the best I could come up with
Automated Never Get
Something
Hernandez not being invited to ump the World Series is like me not being invited to a swimsuit competition.
Can't show off that elephant trunk man thong huh? I know you have it tucked away for that special invitation.
You should file a federal lawsuit against the swimsuit competition then immediately they would invite you and make you the winner!
Just sue for discrimination and you'll get whatever you want! 😂
@@thequinlanshow3326 that is the new norm. Just say you feel discriminated.
It's like me not being invited to a beauty pageant.
wish we all could sign a petition to get this man fired and banned from MLB for just being so damn terrible 🤣
I got into baseball because I've heard of how bad Angel was. Literally heard how bad he was, looked up a UA-cam video, and because of suggestions I'm back into the Blue Jays. Watched two games this year on TV before I saw the 29-5 blowout vs Red Sox and NOW I'M ALL IN BABY.
Thanks for the video!
You can make anyone look bad by selecting certain clips from their entire career. For Angel Hernandez though, it would be difficult to select enough clips to make him look good.
You know murder is illegal? Because damn that was brutal.
He's horrible
You know that he is a god at balks right?
@@fanny2081 you know he is god awful at literally everything else
The word is IMPOSSIBLE lol
Hernandez gets fired for doing his job incorrectly
Hernandez: “It’s racism”
Worst part is that him doing that takes away credibility from people who may have actually experienced racism in major league sports.
Play the race card
Not even fired, just not promoted 😂
Isn't it always racism?
Blind people are a race?
Came back two years since this video dropped. He's still calling the game and he's even worse now.
Just recently in the last week or so, sure enough, you have this lousy umpire making some really bad calls. There's a reason why he did not ref any post season games, and he blamed it on racism, but we all know the truth and his cries fell on deaf ears. This man needs to retire from this profession asap!
Can't they promote him? Give him an office with a nice view somewhere.
At my place of work it's 3 strikes and you're out of there, with Angel behind the plate it's 3 strikes and you're on first base.
Such a good comment
4 balls and you're out.
LOL
@@ronnelson7828 LOL take your out.
Where do you work?
I loved how he sued MLB and the judge was like “nah you just suck at your job that’s why you haven’t gotten post season work and crew chief status”
Thank goodness
Hold on, the man sued the MLB??? Did he seriously think anything would come out of that? Even people with legit reasons to sue the league usually just get the case thrown out because Money talks
@@enthusiastofcute Last month he asked an appeals court to reinstate his lawsuit. He's claiming MLB manipulated his performance reviews to make him look bad lol
@@nommchompsky damn, well he’s persistent. I’ll give him that
I wish I was there to witness hearing that ruling from the judge.
We had a Ump in High School that kept a 16oz beer in his chest protector. He had cut a little pocket out the back of it that he could insert the can into. He'd "go to the bathroom" at least 3 times between innings during the games. This was his cover to dump an empty and insert a new can. During the game, he'd pull the protector up over his face like he was "adjusting" it repeatedly. That was when he'd take a gulp. He once called a 9th inning pitch thrown behind my buddy Everett's back a strike. Great memories.
The only way to get rid of him is for every manager to get to the field, wait for game time, then say, "Oh Angel is on? We'll wait for another umpire." Then refuse to take the field, fines or not.
If enough teams just refuse to play when he's on crew, fans will demand money back, and MLB will have to do something.
The umpires' union protecting him is the only reason he hasn't been fired
No truer words have ever been typed.
@JoeBidens Bunghole And teacher's unions
@JoeBidens Bunghole Watch "Waiting for Superman".
Faaaaaact.
@Blue Patriot or they’ve become unsustainable
I had a dream where Angel Hernandez, Joe West, Laz Diaz, and CB Bucknor were all chosen as the officiating crew for the World Series, and both teams forfeited in protest. 😂😂😂
At least CB Bucknor isn't an arrogant tool like Angel Hernandez
You nailed it. Those are the worst umpires by far.
I agree, but since it is a WS game, Eric Gregg should also be out there! He arguably had the worst called game in the history of the playoffs in 1997 behind the plate. I still have nightmares over that one!
@@andyd_9 Yeah that was pretty bad.
Ding Ding!!!!!
Lol that look back @0:21 when he doesn't get the most obvious strike call. Like, it's not even anger, just pure shock.
This is so true. I am surprised that pitchers and catchers don’t have a sign that says high fastball I’ll duck and let it hit Angel in the face. At least in hockey we can shoot the puck at them and say oops I was trying to clear it around the boards
If most people had a 20% efficiency rating at work, they would be fired.
He got promoted
Hernandez is terrible, but you're lying with statistics there. He didn't get 80% of his calls wrong. He got 80% OF THE CALLS THAT WERE SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW wrong. He made way more than 5 calls that game. All of the other calls he got right, apparently.
@@puckerings that is true, I'll grant you that. I was thinking in lines of what was reviewed. Even if he gets every other call right, it's still bad. And let's face it, if he got 4 out of 5 wrong that they did review, gotta wonder how many others he has blown. But you are right, that % was misleading as hell.
His calls are below the Mendoza line
Not if they were union workers.
Damn, Angel really made 212 accounts to dislike this
Might not all be him. It might be the people who realized that the narrator of this video is straight-up reading from AH's Wikipedia page for this video.
@@stevepicray8438 it’s a joke
I'm surprised that ego driven douchebag only made that many. He probably tried to get his Mom to make a few but she refused because she thinks he's a complete tool like the rest of us do.
Seriously, who is the communist who is angry about people saying bad things about Angel fucking Hernandez?!
now 400
All I saw was the title and knew it had to be about Hernandez, that's how infamous he's become for making terrible calls.
I’m not into baseball but this man still managed to piss me off by watching this vid! Bruh anyone kicked his ass lol
I don't know about the worst in history, but definitely in the last 175 years.....
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EPIC COMMENT!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Joe West has to be considered.
@@johnpendleton9326 i was gonna say this, there is only one other who can compare to how bad hernandez is and that is joe west. the guy can legit barely stand up after he crouches down anymore and has the only highlight reel of bad calls to match angel.
Joe west isn't bad when making calls, he just has an ego bigger than his neck and it has been a massive problem for a long time, and everyone hates him for it.
It bothers me so much that umpires are never held accountable for their mistakes. You can’t say anything about them because you’ll be fined or suspended.
Classic God complex?
Eeehh I think there's not enough umpires wanting to deal with peoples bullshit. I'm an umpire I call what I see, don't like it? Hey take whatever steps necessary, they won't fire him because NO ONE WANTS TO UMPIRE. They take what they can get
Bad umpires & worse, bad politicians...
I was at an Orioles game a few years back. An umpire actually ejected a fan from the game. He couldn't handle criticism.
It's the same with the intellectual anointed where policy decision that have disastrous outcomes and where they paid no price for being wrong.
The GOAT! 😂😂 of horrible calls
Amazing that the overwhelming consensus on this guy, being what it is, the MLB has not terminated or at least reassigned him.
Employing angel hernandez as an MLB umpire is like hiring Stevie Wonder as a school bus driver.
😂 I feel the same way about these bozos in the MLB organization that continue to use flawed and corrupt human beings to make strike and ball calls when we could be using electronic devices that could call the game a billion times more accurately and fairly! Maybe it's up to the Yankees to decide since the vast majority of the time it's the Yankees that are benefitting the most from these umpires' bad calls!
Hahahahihihilol
That is insulting to Stevie Wonder 😂
🤣
Hey! Stevie Wonder as a blind man is still a better possible bus driver than Hernandez ever was an Umpire! 🤣
The simple fact he brought race up as an issue to MLB speaks volumes as to the character of this "umpire"!!
@jeff sadly I have to agree!! SMH
A professional sport that painted BLM on its fields deserves to deal with a lawsuit like that.
@@leonardshevlin7260 I couldn't agree more on that aspect. I was a longtime baseball fan of over 50 years, but after all of the BLM bullshit with players putting BLM flags on Homeplate and then walking off the field and canceling games I finally gave up the game. Baseball was the only sport left that I watched and that I cared for. I stopped watching the NBA in 2002 and the NFL in 2004 so this one really hurt.
Not only is he the worst umpire in baseball history but it's absolutely laughable that he filed a lawsuit based on his "race". Angel Hernandez is WHITE, a White Cuban to be precise. He would have been better off claiming that he was being discriminated against because of his Cuban ethnic background or because he is Latino.
@@Gsmooth10455 My Dad became a fan of college lacrosse late in life. Some sports fans I know revisit events from the past.
Whole games (and whole series of games) are available online or on DVD.
The best one was Ian Kinsler gave hernandez the bird and asked " how many fingers do I have up " 😂
He keeps his job because of the umpires baseball union. It's impossible to get fired.
The amount of monetary damage angel has done to MLB is incalculable. The fact they keep him and guys like him around makes them deserve everything they get.
pretty sure they have no control over it
Umpires have a union. MLB might want to fire them but is not able to.
They keep him and guys like him around because we will talk about him and make and watch videos about him.
He is a marketing tool.
Or just a tool in general.
Who watches these overpaid kneelers anyway?
Pro sports are DEAD. Quit supporting overpaid shills.
I agree. MLB keeps telling the viewing public that improving the product is their foremost concern. Yet Angel and a few others remain employed and impacting the viewing experience in a negative way.
Just saying the words "angel hernandez is the worst umpire" earns a like
Have a like mate
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He's just jealous because he couldn't become a ball player!
"Angel Hernandez is the worst umpire in Major League Baseball history."
It's not even close.
Send him down to officiate in the Minors, never let him near a Major league game ever again? The Clubs do it with players that don't measure up.
If I performed at my job like he performs at his, I would’ve been fired a long time ago.
If Angel was your boss, you'd be given a promotion hahaha
Thats the point....why don't you invite a dozen MLB umpires to watch you do your job and bash you publicly?
If the Yankees and Red Sox agree on something you know he's bad 😂😂
I heard every morning when Angel gets out of the shower, he calls his balls strikes.
If Angel Hernandez were a firefighter, he’d likely be seen throwing left and rights at the flames.
Being the worst is one thing but being as proud of it as he is really amazes me
He says "I'm number 1. I'm number 1."
Just like cops!
With malignant narcissism, it's always someone else's fault.
@@billyrodriguez1878 the fuck?
@Bipolar Bryan I just turned 55 this Mother’s Day and have had my run ins with police. Being a minority with a good car, I am an emergency medicine physician, I have been stopped just for fishing expeditions. They think that they are masters of the world. Just see what is happening on the news. Power leads to corruption in the long run, just like umpires.
As a high school baseball umpire, knowing how hard it is to make the right call, I would have to agree that Hernandez is horrible. However, he is protected by their union & will continue to work. That's the real horrible part of this.
30 years of umping experience from Little League to Adult leagues and our Board really has no tolerance for criticism of fellow umpires, but I am sure an exception might be made for Angel 😇.
@@user-sg6fw7zh3bYou will all be replaced by robots 😊
The time has come for robot umpires.
Played baseball into my 30's. I umpired for1 year to help out some friends. I did 10-12 yr olds and 13-15. I never umpired before and it was tough. That said I still think an umpire who is doing Big League games should never get 4out of 5 calls WRONG.WOW! And after watching his balls and strike calls, he should have been gone a while ago. Sorry Angel !
“Joe TORE???” Come on, man.
Yea what’s up with that ?
Thank god it wasn’t just me. You’re making a video about baseball and you don’t know how to pronounce Joe Torre? Oy vey!
Put some respect on his name. Com on man
@Kevin L Not one mistake, the same mistake multiple times in the same video. Torre is a HOFer and has been an extremely well recognized figure in baseball for years. You lose credibility when you make an egregious error like that, especially in a video where you're killing an umpire for making errors.
@@kaimaynor2007 YOU lose credibility when you make decisions on whether or not someone is credible based on a pronunciation error. These things happen in video production. Things slip by. There's even a pin. "Egregious". Fucking drama queen. No seriously if you're the type of person to get mad when your name is mispronounced, you're a worthless diva.
Do you agree?
Everyone should agree
its hard not to after watching him ump
its Joe (Tor-ee)
You need to take the video down and re-cut the audio track. You can't spend all that time ripping Hernandez for his errors when you, yourself, screw up like that.
Yes, it's that big of a deal.
I’m a bitter Angels fan that still thinks Doug Eddings is the worst.
Umps should be praised for having good games, and umpire “perfect games” should be a thing
Hernandez is making a case for the dreaded robo-ump.
I didn’t even have to look at the picture while reading the title...lol
Right.
100% knew exactly the Ump the clip was going to talk about 😂😂
He'll play the race card every chance he gets.
2 words why Angela "Karen" Hernandez will always have a job in mlb
Umpires Union
Discrimination lawsuit.
WRONG..HIS LATINO BACKGROUND
They should bring up a couple Alfonso Marquez' and get rid of Angel
One word QUOTA!
No doubt about it.
The only umpire with a seeing eye dog.
Angel has ruined countless games and calls unwatchable incompetent
MLB Newest Rule: The more errors the umpire make, he gets demoted back to the Minor League till he works on his calls.
Are you referring to Ángel Hernandéz?
Yep. Demote him.
That would be actually relatively fair, it wouldn’t be putting them out of work, therefore not triggering the umpire Union and the major leagues get rid of the incompetent guys
If that was the case, Angel Hernandez would be umpiring a T-ball game.
@@NJGuy1973 And even that, badly!
Oh! NO! NO! NO! I don't want him umping my 5 year old grandson's T-Ball games! He would even terrible selling shoes. May he need to shovel $hit at the local stock yards 18 hours a day.
Once you know Angel Hernandez is umping a game he always seems to become part of the game’s story - when he should be working to be invisible. Horrible ambassador for the game.
That's why I'm not into basketball. The refs have way too much subjective control over the game.
It seems to be overly complicated to find the Umpire schedule, but I only ever seek it to find out if Angel is umping in a game for my team.
What's his annual salary in bribe money?
That's so racist
@@guitarhero6584 no such thing. There has been nothing racist here.
He’s got the goods on someone in the MLB hierarchy…
He’s still employed for the same reason many horrible employees are still employed: they are protected by their union.
He and Joe West are perfect for each other
Should have put them in a crew together just so they could eject each other.
I think Joe West needs an honorable mention, at least.
@@FHL-Devils iconic response. Had me dying
And Joe Buck's World Series commentating
Joe West was once a decent NL Umpire in his early days. Oh well...
Imagine Joe Buck calling a game and Angel Hernandez is behind the plate.... only in my nightmares
Why would you put that nightmare in someone’s head.........
omg...
And Joe west on first yikes
Don't understand the hate for buck. I think he's just fine
I’ve seen that game…
6:31 there is no "guessing" why he's still employed.
Umpires are contractors. And they have a union. That union's responsibility is to "protect" (using that term very loosely in the context of umpiring baseball games) its workers. That means even the terrible umpires like Angel. As long as he's a member of the umpires union, he's going to have a job in MLB.
The real question we should be asking isn't "why is he still employed by baseball", but rather "why does the umpire's union continue to support Angel when all he does is bring shame, disgrace, and perception of ineptitude upon all the other umpires in the game?"
Why does this man have Star Wars theory’s music playing😂😂
Don't forget Joe West he not too far behind 🤣
CB Buknor
I don't watch baseball at all. I know two names currently involved in baseball, Joe West and Angel Hernandez. Not for good reasons.
As a Giants fan I learned about Joe West. He obviously hated MadBum. He didn’t even try to hide it.
Worst five umps:
Angel Hernandez
Joe West
CB Bucknor
Laz Diaz
Alfonso Marquez
In his book, “Baseball is a Funny Game”, Joe Garagiola states that the best compliment you can give an umpire is after the game, you don’t remember his name.
Just like an offensive lineman in the NFL. If you never hear his name, he played a good game.
Greg Bibson is an exception 😎
RIGHT!!! We are supposed to show up and the only thing the managers know about us is we did the pregame meeting at home plate.
@@chrism.1749 Joe Thomas the other one.
Same with hockey referees.
MLB should counter sue. You can't make unfounded charges like that.
It honestly feels like Angel Hernandez comes up with the call in his head a second or two before the moment occurs based on what looks like is about to happen without taking into account what actually happens.
i feel like joe west watches this video as inspiration every night...
Joe West is Angel’s hero
Joe West is Angel Hernandez with even more arrogance.
@@brucesmith9144 And a huge belly
Joe West was his mentor.
In all this hubbub over Angel Hernandez, can we take a moment and appreciate how terribly brutal Joe West is as well?
Cow Boy Joe West must had got mugged at 13th and Market Street in Philly because he hated The Phillies!
But at least he's retired and can do no more harm.
Don't forget that he's also really fat
Oh YES!!! West Was A Whole Shit Box Of Confusion To Me!!!
Strangely as bad as Joe West was, over the past decade Angel has managed to be at least twice as bad.
West has generally serviceable with a really bad game here and there. Angel hasn't had a game that wasn't bad in years.
I've been watching baseball for a long time. I could have told you back in the late 80s how bad an umpire Hernandez was from Triple-A baseball. How he progressed to the majors is a mystery. He has always been controversial. And always as well known as the players for how bad he is.
Affirmative action
Instead of suing the MLB, he should be incredibly grateful he’s actually in the show and not umping Beer league games where he actually belongs
I literally cannot watch games when he's behind home plate. He is so incompetent, so arrogant, it sends my blood pressure through the roof.
You just described my ex-wife 😂
Answer to why he's still employed: The umpires all have each others backs, and MLB has been trying to dump Demon Hernandez for a while now.
MLB umpiring is like the U.S. House of Representatives. Once you are in , you are in forever.
Catchers need to start allowing more 'passed balls' when the balls are just high enough to hit an umpire in the right spot until he learns to call strike and balls correctly.
Joe West isn't far behind.
Don’t forget about CB Buckner, I think he is worse than Joe West and that is pretty bad
Bucknor , sorry for the spelling error but he umps worse than I spell
Sad thing is, West used to be a good umpire....Hernandez( and Bucknor) have ALWAYS been worthless
Joe West ejected Mr. Padre!!! Tony Gwynn, terrible umpire.
Add Eric Gregg to this list. As a Braves fan, I'll never forget how bad he was in the 1997 playoffs. He was calling strikes so far out of the strike zone that the catcher was literally setting up behind the batter's box. And Levan Hernandez just kept throwing "strikes" out there---the Braves had zero chance of hitting any of those pitches. So, Angel Hernandez and Eric Gregg are the worst. And Angel was always looking to start something with players rather than being an agent of calm. He consistently instigates confrontations.
I think Gregg had money on that game. Those balls were ,18 inches off the plate.
That may be true .... Buuuuuuuut I clearly remember Braves catchers setting up a couple inches off the plate and out of the strike zone in the early to mid 90's and whenever Tom Glavine or Avery hit the mitt in that spot it was called a strike - It wasn't. The overhead shots clearly showed the ball an inch or more off the plate when it passed by.
That statement takes balls!!! Maddux didn't throw a legit strike for a decade!!!
Add Bob Davidson
Eric had that terrible game, it was like he was having a seizure or something, it was horrific, but the guy really was a good umpire, especially on the bases, he had some tough games behind the plate but he was a solid ump, Charlie Williams however was another terrible ump.
I've said it before, and I will say it again: "Umpires need a good ass-kicking every now and again."
Basically, this guy is a case study in the downside of unions
Agreed. The only reason he's still calling games is due to the union and the lawsuits he's brought against MLB. Those types of lawsuits don't have to be true to have the desired impact.
i’m a beginner in baseball from the UK and i’ve heard of him 🤣🤣🤣
I think that’s the worst insult an umpire could ever hear
I wouldn't be surprised if Vladimir Putin heard of him.
It's funny I had no idea what Angel Hernandez looked like I just saw the video thumbnail and the title and I thought oh this has to be Angel Hernandez? has to!! YEP lol
the clip of that pitcher mouthing wow makes me fucking cry laughing every time lmfaooooooooooooo
Damn, Hernandez created 34 accounts to dislike this video
Fellow umpires. They're like the blue wall.
Also Joe Torre and his friends for mispronouncing his name.
joe tor
LOL
That's because he mispronounced Joe Torre LMAO people are ridiculous
What Angel really meant was "They discriminated against me because of my incompetence".
Congrats to the MLB Umpires Union for making more people anti-union than anything else in history!
Can't wait for the day that umps are not calling strikes. Or are even completely replaced.
I'm waiting for a manager to walk out of the dugout and eject the ump lol That would be the greatest laugh ever!
We would have to bring back Earl Weaver God rest his soul
Imagine an air traffic controller, a heart surgeon or a knife thrower at a circus with the same level of competence as him.
Excellent point
He'd be in jail
Well glad they deal with games like Hernandez does.
I see dead people.
If Hernandez went to umpires school, how many classes did he skip????????
I bet the 3 blind mice could do a better job than angel Hernandez.😂😂
When Mongo called him out, that was my favorite baseball moment ever 🤣
Angel Hernandez will end up in the Hall of Fame as the umpire that inspired the the fans, teams, and league to finally accept robo-umps. He will be remembered as a hero to MLB.
I've been ready to accept a robot umps in baseball since before we had the tech to do it. The game has been mostly a crap shoot since the very beginning. Any close game could have went either way.
Yeah I agree. Bring on the bots. Too many terrible calls.
Please bring robo umps
He has got to be betting on the games
Heckling Angel Hernandez in person is incredibly therapeutic, strongly recommend
From my understanding, MLB have been trying to get rid of Angel for years, but the Union protects him.
Get rid of Joe West and Jerry Crawford, too. Keep Jim Joyce.
wouldn't be surprised if Angel's name is dropped like Tim Donaghy some day. I'm not exactly a virtuoso in my job but nobody can be *that* bad that consistently unless they're fixing games
Many decades ago I maintained the umps will change the strike zone to make games more competitive, under a sort of mercy rule letting the team that's behind catch up. Many decades later I saw a Sabermetrics style statistical study that concluded just that. As for this ump, he may be just trying to get into the limelight due to psychological issues.
Interesting. If I'm MLB, I'd be inclined to look into that.
Absolutely. If you go back and watch when the Marlins "won" the world series, you'll see some pretty outrageous strike zones. There are many more examples too. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Angel behind the plate.
@@ItsAllAboutGuitar If you're referring to the game Livan Hernandez was getting strike calls with pitches a foot off the plate, that wasn't Angel. That was Eric Gregg. And he never umpired a postseason game again for the rest of his life.
@@ItsAllAboutGuitar Rijo in 90 was too
Maybe if the guy had ever played baseball, he might understand what's going on. 🤣🤣🤣🤣