Worst ump in MLB?

I keep waiting for Tim Tschida to surface. Am I off base here?

 

You asked for worst. No way Tschida reaches the level of suckitude to which Bucknor and Hernandez aspire.

 

Tschida has games when he competes. I saw him once last year when his strike zone was dancing around like a luna moth on a windy night. But for sheer, consistent badditity, yep, it's still Bucknor and Hernandez, I guess.

 

Agreed. He's below average. Certainly not brutal like Bucknor and Hernandez.

 

Ken Kaiser.

 

They don't have AL and NL umps anymore right?

Or did Bucknor switch to the NL? I know I saw him ump some Tigers games last year and yea, he is pretty bad.

 

Andy Fletcher seems to often have a short fuse. Not sure about his strike zone, but I've seen him escalate situations on several occasions.

 

Umps no longer are league-specific. So every team has an equal shot of drawing Bucknor or Hernandez and spending three games swearing at the TV.

 

What qualifies someone to being labeled by those on this thread as a bad ump?

 

Eddings gives Bucknor a run for his money in the "Cujo here's got a little attitudinal problem" department. Both seem to hold grudges. I think most players and managers would rather have someone consistently bad than consistently an asshole. Consistently bad they can adjust to. Consistently inconsistent (see the moth reference above), they can't.

 

Here's the way I put it in the first line of the thread: "By worst ump, I mean most inconsistent, with aggressiveness (a la Joe Crawford) being a secondary factor."

What's your take, boots?

 

I can't agree with you more.