ARLINGTON, Texas – He had plenty of time to think, a night’s worth of sleep, and when Ian Kinsler sat at his locker inside the visiting clubhouse at Globe Life Park this afternoon, he said exactly what he thought.
In short, that Angel Hernandez is a bad umpire. Also, that a career change could serve Hernandez well. But the salient point of his candid, nearly 20-minute conversation was that Major League Baseball needs to implement a system to hold their umpires accountable for on-field performance, which has been a topic in clubhouses for quite some time.
“There needs to be something that’s done,” he said.