In addition to the reported settlement Ángel Hernández received to retire, the heckling on social media got to him, an MLB insider says.
Late last month, Ángel Hernández decided to call it a career after over three decades of umpiring. The 62-year-old suddenly retired Monday night, accepting a financial settlement to end his career. Hernández had a reputation as one of the worst umpires — maybe the worst — in baseball.
As replay and talk of an automated strike zone have become more prominent, the microscope on Hernández became even more magnified, and ESPN's MLB insider Jeff Passan says that played a part in his early retirement. 'It makes me wonder, like, what’s my responsibility and what’s my part in this?' Passan told 'The Rich Eisen Show. 'Because I think sometimes we take for granted what social media actually does and how it brings out the absolute worst in a lot of us.
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