MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Strange recent days: Cardinals sweep Orioles; Reds sweep Dodgers; Phillies lose two of three to Rockies; Marlins have won six of 10.

 

I was at a 2018 Yanks-Sawks playoff game. Sitting in the 500s way way up. Angel Hernandez missed three obvious calls at first base. I could see they were wrong from the nosebleeds. IIRC, he was overturned three times.

Well. Bye.

 

We certainly hear about the best umpires of all time - Nestor Chylak, Doug Harvey, Jocko Conlon - but I cannot remember one who was as notoriously bad as Hernandez. Who is he on par with historically? Or is he the absolute worst?

This is also a good time to share one of my favorite nicknames - Rough Guess, for Russ Goetz, one of the last to wear the outside protector.

 

I don’t mind him being shit at his job. I mind him being shitty and thin-skinned.

 

Can you imagine how bad the likes of Eric Greg were if they had the technology they have now?

 

I’m not one to blame umps/refs they don’t cost you the game, how about the five TOs and/or errors or idiotic base running? But Hernandez was objectively so bad. Then to double down on a discrimination claim was ridiculous and showed his credibility to be zero.

 

There's my question.

I now want to know who actually IS considered MLB's worst umpire.

 

It's basically all the usual suspects.

10 Worst Umpires in Major League Baseball

 

And yet, even they say ...

 

https://x.com/UmpireAuditor/status/1779005111525867814

All 3 of these would have been inside to a left handed batter.

 

tl;dr ... but that's quite the near typo.