No contest. Tim McClelland has won every SI player poll ever conducted for best umpire. each time getting more than twice as many votes as second place. The last vote was in 2006, and with more than 70 umpires from which to choose, McClelland got 29% of all votes!
http://sportsillustrated.CNN.com/2006/players/06/20/poll.0620/index.html
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Jim Joyce is the worst MLB umpire of all time. Just look up Joyce and Armando Garagla
This is not true Jim Joyce made one bad call ... it was a big one but non the less one bad call ... Jim Joyce blow the call on a perfect game ... but he was just voted the best umpire in Baseball by the players ...
$350,000 plus benefits, and their pension after 10 years. The starting salary in MLB is $90,000.
There isn't such thing as a baseball referee! Its a umpire! Go try to find it if you want to be an umpire soooooooooooooooo bad! Look on the internet!
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The NL and the AL used to maintain separate groups of umpires, but Major League Baseball combined them some years ago, and now, all umpire crews work both NL and AL games.