Look, being an umpire is hard. Baseballs move fast, the strike zone changes from player to player, pitch variations are hard to discern sometimes.
So it’s easy to miss a call here and there. Especially in Major League Baseball, where the best of the best players are going at it every night at the highest level.
But at a certain point, there’s an expectation for an umpire to get things right. They’re also supposed to be the best in the world at what they do in calling these games.
MLB Umpire Angel Hernandez seems to be missing that mark right now — and by a lot.
Hernandez got called out after Tuesday night’s Astros vs. Angels game because he blew so many calls. A video posted to Twitter by Apollo Media showed just how bad he was.
All of Angel Hernandez’s “questionable” calls from the Astros/Angels game, April 6, 2021.
Enough is enough.#ForTheH #WeBelieve pic.twitter.com/gqyLkxfLNS
— Apollo Media (@ApolloHOU) April 6, 2021
That’s just the eye test, though. But there’s also actual data to back it up and it turns out he was really that bad.
According to Umpire Auditor, Hernandez missed 24 calls in total with a correct call percentage on just 83.2% of them.
Yesterday, Umpire Angel Hernandez was responsible for the worst called game of the season so far. He missed 24 calls with a correct call percentage of only 83.2%.
These called strikeouts to @ABREG_1 and @Machete1224 were two of his worst.@Astros v @Angels pic.twitter.com/n194czS0Bk
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) April 7, 2021
They graded his overall accuracy at 86%. The average is 94%.
Umpire: Angel Hernandez
Final: Angels 2, Astros 4#WeBelieve // #ForTheH#LAAvsHOU // #HOUvsLAA pic.twitter.com/tswagiMP8i— Umpire Scorecards (@UmpScorecards) April 7, 2021
That’s…not good. Fans were fed up.
@MLB How can you honestly support this? You constantly want to make changes to better the game, but will ignore the most blatant and frustrating aspect for fans and players alike. MLB needs a uniform strike zone!
— Andrew DeVoid (@SaltyGrover) April 7, 2021
The man should not still be an umpire. He's a walking case for robo-umps.
— Jessie Lawrence (@hitstreak) April 7, 2021
Every time Angel Hernandez gets behind the plate he does more to advance the timeline for robot umps than anyone in history. @MLBUA
— Mando (@NHastrosFan) April 7, 2021
And you can’t really blame them here. This is just an awful officiating job, hands down. It’s wild to see a game called this badly.
Those robot umps are gonna be here before we know it.
