Perhaps the biggest surprise in the first half of the baseball season didn’t occur between the foul lines.Did anyone really expect the MLB to be able to get rid of umpire Angel Hernandez?The oft-berated Hernandez said in early May he was retiring after 33 seasons in the majors to spend more time with his family. His lawyer, Kevin Murphy, adamantly told The Athletic that his client “was NOT forced out.”Those pitches were further outside than Hernandez’s strike zone. He reached a “financial agreement” with MLB to go away.Other umps decried the move, saying Angel was an angel. But that was perhaps because they could toil in relative anonymity with Hernandez’s highlights—lowlights?—dominating social media.As for between the lines? Here are some of the season’s biggest surp…