‘Everybody Is Putting Us Down’: Veteran MLB Umpire Slams ‘Nasty’ Baseball Culture

Retiring ump Laz Diaz calls environment around MLB ‘nasty’

By Field Level Media Sep 20 (Field Level Media) - Laz Diaz, a major-league umpire since 1995, is retiring after the season and it's clear he will miss the friends he has made in baseball but not baseball itself. It is not the ​game he used to know, he ...

‘Everybody is putting us down’: Veteran MLB umpire slams ‘nasty’ baseball culture

Laz Diaz spoke candidly about the trials and tribulations associated with umpiring during a tell-all interview with USA Today's Bob Nightengale.

"What I Won't Miss is This Game": Umpire Laz Diaz Spills Everything Wrong With MLB as He Exits 31-Year-Long Career

Laz Diaz was there for Barry Bonds’ record-setting 756th home run game, Mark Buehrle’s perfect game, the inaugural Field of Dreams Game between the Yankees and White Sox, WBC games in Japan and Puerto Rico, and for the injunction of modern technology in baseball. When he became an umpire in 1995, MLB did not have […]

Umpire Laz Diaz calls out 'nasty' MLB climate as he ends storied career

Longtime MLB umpire Laz Diaz doesn't like the scrutiny of the modern game.