If you’ve watched any Mariners games on TV or in person this season, you may have noticed something different when the King has been on the mound. No, we’re not going to dwell again on his decline and quasi-reinvention - in this case it’s the back of his jersey that matters. What was, for thirteen years, Hernandez is now, finally, Hernández.
Félix’s jersey change comes as the latest in the #PonleAcento movement - an initiative sparked by LatinWorks, an Austin-based ad agency, to encourage MLB players to add the appropriate diacritical marks to their uniforms.