MLB Umpire Manny Gonzalez Had An Absolutely Shocking Performance Behind The Plate In Cubs-Giants Game

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Most baseball fans don’t know the name Manny Gonzalez, but Gonzalez may well be the worst umpire in Major League Baseball today, and he proved as much with an absolutely shocking performance behind the plate on Monday.

Gonzalez was tasked with called balls and strikes for a matchup between the San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs. The result was a complete and utter disaster.

Ump Scorecards, perhaps the best account on all of Twitter dot com, revealed that Gonzalez correctly called just 87 percent of all pitches in the contest. That was 4.7 percent below his expected accuracy and 9.6 total correct calls below the average umpire.

San Francisco went on to win the game 7-6. But Ump Scorecards revealed that Gonzalez’s missed calls cost the Giants a total of 1.19 runs, which is an astonishing amount.

So, how bad was the performance in context?

Gonzalez had the sixth-worst accuracy of any game in the Major Leagues this year. (Our old friends C.B. Bucknor and Alfonso Marquez were two of the other five.)

But that’s not the worst part. This is part of a pattern of terrible umpiring from Gonzalez. In fact, the evidence suggests that Gonzalez is the worst home plate umpire in all of baseball.

Gonzalez has been behind the plate for 12 MLB games this season.

Ump Scorecards ranks him in the first percentile in accuracy and just the ninth percentile in expected accuracy. He’s in the first percent in accuracy above expected and, again, the ninth in consistency.

In simpler terms, Gonzalez is a downright disaster. And he’s not even consistent about his screw-up.

Gonzalez’s s— show between the Cubs and Giants was his third game this season with under 90 percent accuracy. So while Angel Hernandez may have been successfully bullied out of baseball, it appears we’ve already found his replacement.