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Garth,
I read an article about a month in Sports Illustrated about players, managers, and front office people rating the MLB staff. According to this data, Hernandez was ranked among the worst umpires in the eyes of the players and managers.
But, Hernandez was ranked among the best and most respected umpires in MLB. Plus, back in July, while working the USSSA 14 and under baseball World Series in Canton, MI; some of us had the opportunity to meet Tim Welke and question him about different aspects of umpiring at the major league level.
He spoke very, very highly of Angel Hernandez as an umpire at the major league level. He thought Angel was an outstanding major league umpire and Tim really enjoyed working with Angel on past occassions in the post season when they were assigned to the same crew.
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