Angel Hernandez, the best there is, the best there was, the best that will ever be. perfection, never has called a pitch correct.

Angel gets 100% fooled by the catcher framing pitches.

Freddie's eye roll at 1:05 pretty much says it all.

These batters are straight up PUNISHED by Hernandez for having a good eye. It’s disgraceful.

Actually, these ARE his best calls...

Mlb: we're gonna try to speed up the game. Angel: hold my strike zone.

Well, he is consistent. Strikes are just off the plate.

If I was an MLB pitcher and Hernadez was behind the plate, I'd throw every pitch 2-3 inches off the plate. Why would you ever throw more hittable pitches in the zone when he's calling those as strikes?

We probably have to thank Angel Hernandez for the pitch clock because it sped up the time that everyone was using to complain about him

Umpire Angel Hernandez missed 23 calls in the #Yankees #Astros game. He now has the lowest correct call rate in the league.

Here after the retirement announcement 😂

off the field, an amazing guy. super nice and caring of the community. on the field, worst umpire in history.

“Best of” and Angel Hernandez are so far from each other it would take 10,000 years for light to reach each other

The look on Haders face when he got that last call. You just have to swing when hes umping

If it was a real "very best" it would be a blank screen

The fog one "for hitters and for the outfielders to pick up the ball" Umpires should have been added to that

I would love to see AF draw what his strike zone is. I think he likes his punch out routine and watches it on sports center over and over.

Who’s here for the announcement of his retirement?

He's famous in Korea, too. It's just great to still referee in the Major League.

If Angel Hernandez is going to umpire a game, it should be protested by both teams !!!!

Keep in mind this is the guy who missed the call on an obvious home run even after a video replay.

Alt title: Angel Hernandez at his best

I just remember a few years ago when the Cardinals started at home with this hack being the HP Umpire. Top of the first, it was one of the above calls. And the Cardinals announcer says. I see Angel is already in mid-season form.

This video could have been 45 minutes if you add in his missed calls on the base pads.

Hey, it's Enriquo Palazzo!

teams need to protest every game Hernandez umpires.

Whenever Angel gets out of the shower in the morning, he calls his balls strikes.

It's not even about calling balls and strikes though. He misses calls all over the diamond. First base, third base, outfield. You name it. It's like he shows up drunk or something.

His strike zone is all over the place. He's a House of Mirrors Umpire, disgraceful. To think he brought race into why he's never ump'd in a World Series... smh Just disgraceful.

I used to defend umpires calling balls and strikes and never using an automated strike zone. After watching years of the awful balls and strikes called I can’t defend them anymore. It’s gotten worse as well.

Whenever you are anxious about your next job interview, or you think you're bad at your job, or are losing the motivation to get that promotion.... REMEMBER: Angel Hernandez still has a job at the highest level of the sport.

Maybe favorite are the strikes he calls balls.

"according to Angel" 😅😅😅😅😅

If it's close swing the bat. If he's going to call it a strike you're better off trying to hit it.

Let's be fair about something though... that Braves-Phillies highlight where they have a position player pitching, if it's remotely close he gets those strikes.

The announcers saying it's "on the corner" over and over again- wtf? Can we assume that MLB execs have sent an edict banning criticism of Angel? Holy crap!

I'm convinced Angel doesn't even track the ball and just checks where the catcher ends up framing it. Just put him on third base ffs, stop putting him in these positions that matter.

I have a problem with the computer generated strike box, no matter who the umpire is. Sometimes the top of the box is letter high and sometimes it is belt high. The strike zone on it's lower end is at the hollow of the knee but sometimes the box is at the top of the knee and I have seen the box seem to shift during an at-bat.

The season has just started and Angel is back at it.

It was announced about an hour or so ago that Angel Hernandez has retired and will not umpire another MLB baseball game. Edit: I’m sure you’ve noticed but he pretty much always falls for the catcher’s pitch-framing. It’s ridiculous.

TBH, some of these calls were pretty close. Also, the two-dimensional strike box does not give a perfectly accurate sense of whether the balled traveled through the zone to the catcher's mitt. Sometimes a breaking ball will end up slightly outside the strike zone after traveling through it.

The worst official in any sport. His incompetence is legendary.

He consistently is rated at the bottom of all umpires. Yet the union will never support MLB firing him. Sometimes you just have to admit that your union member should be fired. You’re holding back the advancement of a more qualified umpire by continuing to support this farce. Being an MLB umpire is kinda like being on the US Supreme Court. Lifetime position regardless of how terrible you are. This spring they held those “futures” games for the top prospects. In those games players were allowed to challenge umpires calls. The system worked perfectly! Some calls were overturned. MLB needs to do this for the Major League too ASAP

Am curious if anyone has sorted these bogus calls by inning to see if they detect a pattern of wanting to go home.

Angel missed a balk and then called a neck-high pitch a strike in a TOR-NYY game recently, all in a split second. That’s two for one …

His strike 3 call is cool and smooth af

There are a lot of umps who think they are bigger than the game and by far this video nails it! He is equally bad as a base ump, thank God for video review. This is the poster child for a robo ump!

That AR strike zone square has destroyed Angel’s whole life.

you might as well swing at everything. If it's a ball he'll call it a strike. And if he calls it a ball that means it was right down the middle.

I'm amazed none of these batters are walk away from the plate, treating it like a blind man's cane. I wouldn't be able to hold myself back, personally.

He's wrecking the game! MLB can't even golden parachute him off the field into retirement?

Always cracks me up when you hear the announcer be all salty about the calls until they are getting the calls then you don't hear anything ;)

on the edge, caught the corner...love the euphemisms for shitty calls by Angel

Angel brings a new meaning to Paint the corner

The more attention he gets GOOD or BAD...He loves it all.

I bet if a pitcher threw behind the batter Angel Hernandez would call a strike.

That brewers Phillies game has to be one of the worst umpiring I’ve ever seen

Given the fact that nobody has anything good to say about the way Angel calls the games, you would think that he would at least attempt to get better but he doesn't seem to give a shit about what he's doing.

Maybe the Fans could help out with a boycott. Money changes everything. 🙏🏼

the pure dissapointment of the phillies and braves players when angel makes a bad call is hilarious, freddies eye roll is hilarious

I would never throw a strike until he absolutely made me come into the zone.

My mans says fuck a rectangle, I’ll judge it as a rectangel

To be fair, the vast majority of these were close to the strike zone, and could have been called that way by any other umpire. His actual greatest hits would be the times when he more obviously blows it.

At first I was thinking "Angel Hernandez made good calls?" Then I saw it was a 5:42 second video and I knew it had to be bad calls.

Doesn't do mainstream titles, and has a good range for type of content that is enjoyable for baseball fans like me. Thumbs up

It doesn’t matter so much as long as he’s equally horrendous to both teams in a game

This was a much longer video than I was expecting

Bad when both teams are rolling their eyes at the calls

He definitely missed a lot of calls, but a lot of them could have been at least partially excused if he showed any kind of humility on the field. That being said, as a spectator, I'd rather have an ump call a wider strike zone. Get them to swing the bats. Incidentally, I'm sure they study film on umps just like they study film on pitchers. Tell your team "we've got a big strike zone today. Protect the plate, protect half of both batter's boxes, ankles to armpits. Swing, damnit."

I think that his calls are defendable if you count that the ball passes the strike zone over the plate and not where the catcher receives it.

Awww man...end it with Schwarber going off. That was the best part of the game.

He just doesn't see the corners of the zone. But fortunately, he's a disaster on first base because he can't pick up the foot/ball in the glove, too!

A lot of those were actually strikes. Especially if you have two strikes on you. You should always be swinging if it's close

recommended to me after he announced his retirement LOL

We just need to extend home plate by 4 inches on each side, and we are good.

What a load of crap!!! You didn't finish the Scharber rant?!?!?! That's literally the best Angel Hernandez rant ever!!!

Exhibit A- when the players' union calls for robot umps.

Man it would be great if he started an impaired vision fund

HE WAS FIRED LFG

I don’t get bothered when the call is missed high or low. Every batter’s build is different, the zone shifts up and down, etc. But AH is almost always way off laterally. I don’t see how that’s possible unless you’re corrupt or cross-eyed.

I love it. " Called a strike according to Hernandez" I can't understand how the Union can justify Angel Hernandez any longer. Its honorable to protect our own but at some point when your own just really sucks and damages the game, it's time to take action. The man is not MLB caliber. He is so bad and has been so bad for so long, every pitch is questioned and the man just isn't good. Hernandez is on a different playing field than these other Pros. Angel has a 24 zone strike insead of the the widely accepted 9 zone.

For most of those we use to call that a large strike zone, and if that strike box wasn't put on the TV screen nobody would say anything. A couple of the way outside one were pretty bad though.

even the motion he uses to call the strike is annoying*

I'm gonna miss him like he missed the strike zone

How the hell does he not get fired for making like a billion of ridiculous mistakes??? If I’m the president of MLB, I obviously would have to fired him! Some of them were kinda strike, but most of them weren’t

I think as soon as it's known that Angel Hernandez is the home plate ump both teams should call for the game to be played under protest and see how many games and teams it takes before the MLB nuts up to the umpires union and fires this guy for incompetence.

Some of the strikes in the Subway series game were indeed strikes.

The best of him is OUT OF MLB FOREVER

That Phillies Braves game was horrible

1:48 I wonder what he's looking at.

Proof that they need to automate balls and strikes.

He has a consistently wide strike zone. Swing the bat if he's umping.

Angel calls the full 30" plate

amazing he still has a job he should be a HOFer for the worse EVER

He’s popular to hate on but if you look at the ump scorecards he is usually mid tier

I wonder what MLB would do if teams refused to take the field for games when Hernandez is the plate umpire ?

It takes a lot of guts to do a public job so badly for so long

Let’s be real. This should only have been him walking off the field.

If you know he is gonna be calling those outside pitches strikes, just fuckin swing instead of looking and trying to argue

This video could be a lot longer. Dude is brutal. You didn’t show strikes he calls balls.