The Red Sox announced that they’ve designated catcher Oscar Hernandez for assignment in order to open a spot on the 40-man roster for right-hander Trevor Kelley, whose previously reported promotion is now official. Right-hander Mike Shawaryn was optioned to Triple-A to open a spot on the 25-man roster.
Hernandez, 25, was with the Red Sox earlier this season when Sandy Leon was on paternity leave, but he didn’t get into a game during his brief call to the Majors. He hasn’t appeared in the big league since 2016 with the Diamondbacks, who took him with the top pick in the 2014 Rule 5 Draft. Hernandez saw only minimal time with the D-backs over the next two seasons and hit .167/.239/.262 in a tiny sample of 47 plate appearances in the big leagues.
A defensive-minded catcher, Hernandez has regularly posted solid framing numbers in his minor league career and has thrown out 41 percent of potential base thieves. Solid as he is behind the plate, he’s not much of a threat in the batter’s box. Hernandez carries a paltry .190/.240/.344 batting line in 431 Double-A plate appearances and just a .204/.273/.286 slash through 277 career trips to the plate in Triple-A. Boston will have a week trade Hernandez, release him or attempt to pass him through outright waivers.
Blue Jays, please sign him to have Oscar and Teoscar Hernandez on the same team.
cant be worse then Luke Maile
So, does anyone else take issue with the managerial decision to ‘rest’ JD when he’s going to rest during the all-star activity? How draining can it be to attend the all-star weekend, watch all the fun activities, hit as a DH and get 1 or 2 at bats? I bet JD would never say it, just like you’ll never get Sale to say it but Cora needs to wake-up and realize guys with talent don’t want to rest and don’t need to rest like reserves or players comparable to him.
The game against Detroit today is an important one, especially if the Yankees beat TB again. Why not play your best guys? Detroit is a series you need to sweep not just win. Cora has a first time mother perspective on his players. Stop all the resting. It didn’t work last year and it’s not working this year for the star players. Giving the bench a game or two here or there is fine but resting a guy 1 game before the all-star break? That’s ridiculous!! If they lose without JD in the line-up, I hope Cora fries for it. He’s cluesless as a manager. He showed us that last year when we had rain-outs in April and he still rested Mookie, Benny and JD without regard to all the days off from rain. Absolutely clueless!!
What do you possibly mean “it didn’t work last year”? It sure did.