San Francisco Giants: Is Gorkys Hernandez a Savior?

Gorkys Hernandez has been the butt-end of jokes for San Francisco Giants fans for a few years now. His lack of power and general lack of skills were a perfect punching bag for a floundering Giants team. However, in 2018 Gorkys has shown us that maybe he’s better than we once thought.

Thus far, Gorkys has 6 home runs and is batting over .300. So what propelled this sudden boost in his bat?

A skeptic might suggest cork or even PEDs. I mean, c’mon, how does a guy who hit zero home-runs last year when he played in 128 games have six in the 40 some-odd games that he’s played this year?

Let’s start with what definitively changed from last year to this year. He changed numbers from 66 to 7, so that’s…