Angel Hernandez, files racial discrimination suit against MLB

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The umpire reports are great, but don't really measure their other impacts on the game, like being confrontational and thin-skinned. While those may be few and far in between, it still plays a part.

I would love to say fire all of them, but I think they need to have some there just to interpret data from the machines that are coming and relay what they are saying. But I could stomach losing a few of the old guard soon.
 

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The umpire reports are great, but don't really measure their other impacts on the game, like being confrontational and thin-skinned. While those may be few and far in between, it still plays a part.

I would love to say fire all of them, but I think they need to have some there just to interpret data from the machines that are coming and relay what they are saying. But I could stomach losing a few of the old guard soon.
All the umpire reports do is measure ball-strike calling accuracy, right? Which is something umpires shouldn't even be doing anymore anyway. They don't address Angel's issue which has to do with being the biggest fool in the modern history of baseball when it comes to on-field judgment calls, knowing the rules, dealing with players and managers (and apparently his umpire peers according to that recent MLB filing), and all of the stuff that an actual human really needs to do right now. He is the gold standard for unions protecting a moron incompetent in their ranks.
 

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I wonder when broadcast will start including ump stats. "Jones at 3rd today. His calls have been challenged 37 times and only overturned once. Smith behind the plate. At 97%, he's among the 5 best plate umps this season..."
 

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I wonder when broadcast will start including ump stats. "Jones at 3rd today. His calls have been challenged 37 times and only overturned once. Smith behind the plate. At 97%, he's among the 5 best plate umps this season..."
Great idea! Is that data out there? We could at least feature it here in game threads. Talk about it enough and it might start trickling up to reporters and then the broadcast guys.
 

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Great idea! Is that data out there? We could at least feature it here in game threads. Talk about it enough and it might start trickling up to reporters and then the broadcast guys.
I posted a link here.
That didn't stop them from promoting everyone they needed to after the umpires walked out in 1999. Diaz was one of those brought up.
Here's are the stats on umpires for this season. Who else would you like fired? I ask because it looks like the error % on pitches per 9 innings fluctuates from year to year.
 

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Not to defend AH, but the other outfielder is very clearly signaling that the ball is "stuck" with the one arm waving back toward the infield.
 

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Not to defend AH, but the other outfielder is very clearly signaling that the ball is "stuck" with the one arm waving back toward the infield.
He‘s telling the CF to throw to third. Though I guess if you‘re 400 feet away like Angel you might think he was signaling.
 

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I have always wondered why they build walls with that space under the padding. Either bring it down or bring it up an inch or two and the problem goes away. Is there a reason the space is often just enough for a ball to get stuck?

But yeah, Angel Hernandez still sucks at this job.
 

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I have always wondered why they build walls with that space under the padding. Either bring it down or bring it up an inch or two and the problem goes away. Is there a reason the space is often just enough for a ball to get stuck?

But yeah, Angel Hernandez still sucks at this job.
This. Seems like an easily solvable problem
 

OfTheCarmen

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Upon further review, I rescind my every so slight defense of AH and agree the fielder was pointing to third and only used one hand. AH can fuck himself.
 

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Agree. The signal for the outfielders is two arms up.

That was not Angel's call to make
Yeah, we can talk about the particularities all we want, but regardless, I don't understand how the guy standing four hundred feet away even considers inserting himself into that situation.
 

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Calling it from 400 feet away is hilarious in contrast to the play he botched last year when he thought a ball that hit the middle of a video display on the outfield fence cleared the wall for a home run… and he was closest umpire on that one.
 

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I wonder how hated he is by his peers? The crew chief for that game must have been furious about that dumbshittery, at the very least.
 

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When people talk about the strength of a good union, Angel Hernandez should be the poster boy.