Longtime Insider Believes MLB Is Reaching A Breaking Point With Angel Hernandez: ‘Enough Is Enough’

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MLB insider Ken Rosenthal believes Major League Baseball is at a point where they can no longer ignore controversial veteran umpire Angel Hernandez.

Long the most infamous ump in MLB, Hernandez made headlines in early April via some truly egregious strike calls that he made in a game between the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers.

These maverick ways aren’t new to Hernandez, as the 62-year-old has an entire “Incidents” section on his Wikipedia page.

Back in 2018, for example, Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez had this to say about Hernandez:

“Angel was horrible. Don’t get me going on Angel now. Major League Baseball needs to do something about Angel. It doesn’t matter how many times he sues Major League Baseball. He’s as bad as there is.”

Now, six years later, Rosenthal believes the league is approaching the point where they’ll do something about the controversial umpire.

“What is the line where finally someone will step in?” Rosenthal was asked on Foul Territory.

“I don’t know the answer to that. There has to be a line, right? There has to be a line where you tell the umpires enough is enough. We cannot stand this anymore… I would think there’s enough evidence here, we’ve all seen it over the years, to think that Angel Hernandez probably doesn’t belong anymore.”

Hernandez is not just controversial on the diamond but off of it, too, as he sued Major League Baseball in 2017 alleging that racial discrimination was the reason he wasn’t being given more postseason assignments. Hernandez’s lawsuit was ultimately unsuccessful and he hasn’t worked a World Series since 2005.

While Rosenthal that the league itself clearly doesn’t like Hernandez, the rest of the umpires do, at least based on the sources he spoke to.