{"id":24829,"date":"2025-02-10T03:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24829"},"modified":"2025-02-10T03:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:39:37","slug":"breaking-kike-hernandez-announces-hell-return-to-dodgers-for-2025-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24829","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez Announces He’ll Return to Dodgers for 2025 MLB Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kik\u00e9 Hernandez during the Dodgers’ 5\u20133 win over the Rockies on June 20, 2024. \/ Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the aftermath of his second World Series title,\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>\u00a0veteran utilityman Kik\u00e9 Hernandez is coming back.<\/p>\n

Hernandez has agreed to a contract with the Dodgers, he announced in a 65-second social media video Sunday afternoon. Per ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez, the deal is pending a physical.<\/p>\n

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The two sides’ reunion follows Hernandez’s first full season with Los Angeles since 2020. The San Juan native played with the\u00a0Boston Red Sox<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 and ’22 before he was traded back to the Dodgers in July 2023.<\/p>\n

In ’24, Hernandez\u2014always a versatile player\u2014played an astounding seven different positions. That includes 4 1\/3 innings on the mound, during which he posted a 4.15 ERA.<\/p>\n

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