Teoscar Hernández closed out the regular season having put up some of the worst offensive numbers of his career, and made headlines in September for a few botched defensive plays that got him publicly called out by Dave Roberts. Some Los Angeles Dodgers fans went as far as to insist that LA wouldn't make it through October with Hernández in right field, or to say that his re-signing in the offseason was just as bad for the club as, say, Tanner Scott's signing.
Both of those criticisms were almost certainly overreactions (Hernández has never been an outstanding outfielder and the Dodgers still won the World Series with him, and no one's signing could've been worse than Scott's), but there was some truth at their cores — Hernández just didn't have the season that fans were expecting after his massive 2024.