Last summer, long-time MLB umpire Pat Hoberg was disciplined for unspecified violations of MLB’s gambling policy. Hoberg, 38, has been regarded as among the best umpires – at least on balls and strikes – in the game, so the news was pretty jarring. He appealed the discipline, however, and we hadn’t heard much since.
Now we have. Hoberg, who did not umpire a game last season, has been fired:
Breaking, per MLB: Umpire Pat Hoberg has been fired for sharing betting accounts with a friend who bet on baseball though there is no evidence Hoberg himself bet on games or manipulated any that he worked. He also deleted messages central to MLB’s investigation.
— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) February 3, 2025Although there is no evidence that Hoberg himself bet on MLB games or influenced outcomes, sharing the account was enough.
It appears that Hoberg’s friend was pretty good at betting on baseball, by the way. From the AP report on the firing: “MLB said the friend made 141 baseball bets between April 2, 2021 and Nov. 1, 2023 totaling almost $214,000 with an overall win of nearly $35,000.”
I can’t really speak to the details here, since we don’t know exactly what happened between Hoberg and his friend, and why on earth he would share a betting account with someone betting on baseball. If those were the facts, though, it seems like MLB had no real choice but to let Hoberg go.
It’s a shame from an umpiring perspective, though:
Never forget when Pat Hoberg called a PERFECT GAME in the World Series ? pic.twitter.com/k5OwWMOzMT
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