It wouldn't be Los Angeles Dodgers postseason baseball without some heroics from Kiké Hernandez. Like Clark Kent rushing into a phone booth and emerging as Superman, Hernandez transforms seemingly every season right around the time the calendar flips to October.
On a star-studded roster that includes the likes of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie Freeman, it would be easy for the Swiss army knife to get lost in the shuffle. After all, he finished his 2025 regular season with a replacement-level performance, tallying -0.1 fWAR.
Despite those struggles during the 2025 campaign, the Dodgers lost no sleep leaving Michael Conforto off the postseason roster, knowing full well they had an ace up their sleeve with Hernandez roaming left field .