Aaron Boone comes to the defense of retired umpire Angel Hernandez

Major League Baseball fans were united on Monday night in celebration when word first surfaced that controversial umpire Angel Hernandez would be retiring from baseball. 

Hernandez has long been one of the most criticized umpires in baseball for consistently getting calls wrong, and it started to become one of the most dominant talking points in the league.

While fans — and many players — were happy with the news, Hernandez had a surprising person in his corner offering him some shield from criticism.

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone.

While Boone didn't necessarily praise Hernandez, he did say that he was unfairly made the face of bad umpiring and that there were — and are — many umpires worse than him in the league. He also went out of his way to point that Hernandez is a good person.

If there is anybody that is going to have strong opinions on bad umpiring, it is almost certainly going to be Boone give his many run-ins over the years and his impressive tally of ejections. 

Hernandez has definitely been the most scrutinized and criticized umpire in recent memory, but Boone is on to something with his comments here. Hernandez retiring is not going to end bad umpiring in baseball.

Umpiring, whether it be something as simple as enforcement of the strike zone or as aggressive as ejecting people for the smallest things, is going to continue to be a problem and focal point for criticism. 

The rise of instant replay, the usage of the "K-zone" on broadcasts, and increased scrutiny on social media is simply going to move the microscope from Hernandez on to whichever umpire baseball fans universally declare to be the next worst. 

Hernandez did not introduce bad umpiring to baseball. His retirement is not going to be the end of it.