Is Joe West the umpiring version of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Curt Schilling?
MLB officially announced that umpire Joe West (and four other MLB umpires) has retired. West, 69, had been umpired in the majors from 1976 through 1999 and from 2002 through 2021 (he missed 2000 and 2001 due to the mass resignation of MLB umpires as a failed collective bargaining ploy in the 1999 season that cost West and 21 others their jobs).