{"id":64752,"date":"2024-01-07T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T03:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=64752"},"modified":"2024-01-07T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T03:45:53","slug":"teoscar-hernandez-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/01\/07\/teoscar-hernandez-dodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Time Silver Slugger Signs with the Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last offseason, the Toronto Blue Jays <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/11\/18\/teoscar-hernandez-trade-offseason\/\" target=\"_self\">traded<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hernate01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/swanser01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Swanson<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=macko-000ada\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Macko<\/a>. Hern\u00e1ndez had a great 2023 season with the Mariners. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With one regular season game remaining, Seattle was eliminated from postseason contention despite playing well all season. Hern\u00e1ndez then<\/span>\u00a0became a free agent after the season ended. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers was reported today, for one year and $23.5 million, per ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. $8.5 million of that deal will be deferred and paid out from 2030 to 2039. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his eight-year career, Hern\u00e1ndez has won two Silver Slugger Awards, one in 2020 and the other in 2021. <\/span>He&#8217;s a prominent hitter in the prime of his career at 32 years of age. Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez will certainly be looking to make an impact from the get-go with the Dodgers in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Outfielder Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a one-year, $23.5 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Hern\u00e1ndez joins Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow on the new-look Dodgers, who add another All-Star bat to the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1744188097930170754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez Just Signed with the Dodgers<\/h2>\n<p>During the 2023 season, Hern\u00e1ndez struggled against curveballs in two-strike scenarios. Against the curveball, he had a batting average of .161 and a strikeout percentage of nearly 48 percent. Hern\u00e1ndez also struggled against cutters and sweepers in two-strike scenarios. Although fastballs were one of his best pitches to hit, having 77 hits and 16 homers off the pitch, he still had a strikeout percentage of 36 percent. Hern\u00e1ndez had more opposite-field singles than pull hits to left field but had more pulled home runs than opposite-field homers.<\/p>\n<h3>Hern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s 2023 Stats<\/h3>\n<p>Last season, Hern\u00e1ndez played in 160 games. In 625 at-bats, he recorded 161 hits, 26 home runs, 93 runs batted in, and seven stolen bases with a .258 batting average. He had a slugging percentage of .435 with an on-base percentage of .305. His best game of the season was on August 26th against the Kansas City Royals. The two-time Silver Slugger recorded two hits in five at-bats. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six runs were batted in during a 15-2 win thanks to Teoscar&#8217;s two home runs. <\/span>During the month of August, Hern\u00e1ndez collected seven home runs and 22 runs batted in. He&#8217;ll be looking to produce the same way with Los Angeles next season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last offseason, the Toronto Blue Jays traded Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for Erik Swanson, and Adam Macko. Hern\u00e1ndez had a great 2023 season with the Mariners. With one regular season game remaining, Seattle was eliminated from postseason contention despite playing well all season. 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