West's crew received Sam Holbrook from Gerry Davis' umpire crew in exchange for Hernandez.

Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News points out something I honestly can’t believe I missed:

Major League Baseball has split up crew chief Joe West and his over-zealous partner-in-crime Angel Hernandez to start the second half.

Halle-freakin’-lujah!

Hernandez has been moved on to Gerry Davis’ crew  and West’s crew received Sam Holbrook in a trade as lopsided as Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas..

West’s crew had become notorious, to say the least, for hot-headedness this season.  In the eight days leading up to the All-Star break alone, they had issued six ejections.  Overall, they had ejected an incredible 17 players and managers despite already having a week-long break in June.

That’s fifty percent more ejections than any other crew has issued to date.

Not surprisingly both of these assclowns (along with CB Bucknor – who was named on 42 percent of the ballots) received a ton of votes for “worst umpire in the big leagues” in a recent anonymous player poll.

Bucknor’s total narrowly edged Joe West, who was named on 40 percent, and Angel Hernandez, who was named on 22 percent of the ballots.