2021 Year in Review: Yonny Hernandez

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty ImagesWith the 2021 season having come to a close, we are looking back at the year that was for members of the Texas Rangers.

Today we are looking at infielder Yonny Hernandez.

Yonny Hernandez is something of a throwback.

He’s a throwback to the days when your middle infielders were small, fast, light hitting guys who played slick defense and bunted and hit behind runners and all that.

Especially the “small” part.

Both B-R and the Rangers website have Yonny listed at 5’9”, 140 lbs. One hundred and forty pounds for a professional athlete seems ridiculously small to me. I mean, not for a lightweight or featherweight pro boxer, I guess, but for someone in one of the…