Ángel Hernández is immediately retiring as an MLB umpire, according to USA TODAY’s Bob Nightengale.
Never before have we so rooted for Nightengale to be right about something. That said, he certainly has a better track record than Hernández, who is a bad umpire behind the plate and somehow worse when assigned to a base. Nightengale says Hernández and MLB have been working on a financial settlement, which makes sense; MLB was always going to have to pay to make Hernández go away.