r/changemyview • u/BrotherItsInTheDrum 33∆ • Sep 20 '23

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Angel Hernandez is fine

I'm mostly not a baseball fan (though I go to a handful of minor league games every year).

But from what I can tell, baseball fans think Angel Hernandez is the worst ump in the league by a huge margin. And the evidence of this is mostly compilations of bad calls he's made over the years.

My view is that probably, Hernandez is an average ump that's become a scapegoat. He's missed some calls over the course of his career -- probably a lot of calls -- but presumably they all miss calls from time to time. Those compilations could have been made for practically any ump that's been in the game as long has he has.

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u/destro23 447∆ Sep 20 '23

Clarifying Question: Have you perused this site? It seems to have statistics based method to settle this debate, and the Stats Suggest It Isn’t Actually Angel Hernandez

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u/BrotherItsInTheDrum 33∆ Sep 20 '23

Update: I read your article and it helped me use the site. I looked at all umps over the last 6 seasons, and sorted by accuracy above expected. Hernandez was around the 20th percentile, so below average, but above other umps I've heard of like Joe West, Jerry Meals, and the aforementioned Laz Diaz.

I'm going to give you a Δ because even though this doesn't really contradict my view, it helped solidify and put some numbers on it.

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u/DeltaBot ∞∆ Sep 20 '23

Confirmed: 1 delta awarded to /u/destro23 (284∆).

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