Yesterday, the Mariners “King” took the mound for a Winter League match for the first time since 2007.
The hope is that through his extra work in the Liga Venezuela Beisbol Profesional over this next month, followed by the World Baseball Classic in March, that Hernandez will fix the kinks in his game that were exposed the past two years.
Unfortunately for Hernandez, his debut with Navegantes del Magallanes didn’t go so well. Of his twenty-seven pitches thrown, fourteen of them were balls. That’s over fifty percent! And this was just part of his chaotic night.