Longtime umpire Joe West to retire after 2021 postseason from Chelena Goldman, with YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com *****Infamous MLB umpire Joe West has officially informed the league he will retire following the 2021 postseason, ESPN reported Monday.***** It’s been rumored that West would call it a career ever since he broke the record for most games umpired back in May. The 68-year-old has been calling games since 1976. “Breaking the record was the goal,” West told ESPN. “I thought I would do it last year but the season got a little messed up and I don’t think it was right to work until…
Coming in today from CBSSports.com and by way of Jim Scott, on Facebook…. Major League Baseball umpire Joe West broke Hall of Famer Bill Klem’s record for the most regular-season games by an umpire on Tuesday night when he took the field to call balls and strikes during the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago White Sox contest. West now has umpired 5,376 games, eclipsing Klem’s mark of 5,375. Klem umpired in the National League for 37 years before retiring in 1941, and was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953. The 68-year-old West made his MLB debut…