PHOENIX —
Kiké Hernández did a lot of waiting this winter.
Not only on the Dodgers, but most other teams around Major League Baseball, as well.
Like many veteran players in what has become a slow free-agent market — the Dodgers’ $1 billion spending spree on Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and others, aside — Hernández received few formal offers for most of the offseason.
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