The best pitch-calling MLB umpire is Pat Hoberg. According to umpirescorecards.com, Hoberg had a league-best 95.3% accuracy rate calling balls and strikes and was the only umpire to record a 100% accurate game.

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.

Major League Baseball announced Monday that it has terminated umpire Pat Hoberg for violating the league’s gambling rules. MLB’s decision was made in May 2024 and upheld following an appeals process in accordance with the league’s collective bargaining agreement with the MLB Umpires Association (MLBUA).