The Dodgers brought back one of their 2025 champions in the form of Miguel Rojas earlier this week, and now, the Dodgers hope to do the same with another fan favorite.<\/p>\n
Where would the Dodgers be without Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez over the last two seasons? Hern\u00e1ndez spent the last two regular seasons serving as a utility and depth option, but when asked to step up in a starting role come playoff time, he mostly delivered, and his efforts were crucial for the Dodgers to repeat as champions.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers are open to a reunion with Hern\u00e1ndez, report both Fabian Ardaya and Katie Woo of The Athletic<\/a>, though a deal would create a logjam for the team\u2019s bench depth on paper. Hern\u00e1ndez had surgery back in November to repair his left elbow, and he doesn\u2019t have a definite timetable for his return.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the looming possibility of the Dodgers re-signing Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez. The two sides are interested in a reunion, though that only further clogs some things up for the Dodgers\u2019 bench plans going forward on paper.<\/p>\n Former Dodgers outfielder Josh Reddick tweeted about Yoshinobu Yamamoto\u2019s record breaking contract, writing \u201cHow do you give a guy $325 million without ever throwing a pitch in MLB?\u201d Well, Josh, it\u2019s time to eat your words.<\/p>\n Reddick appeared on the Foul Territory podcast<\/a> and spoke with Erik Kratz about his hot take on Yamamoto from a two years ago. He admitted that he was wrong about that take, and saluted Yamamoto on how dominant a pitcher he is, but he will not apologize for his statement.<\/p>\n \u201cI was wrong on this one. It was an opinion, I had it, and I was wrong for it at that time. He\u2019s obviously a very talented pitcher, so I tip my cap to him. He\u2019s obviously very good. I was wrong, Dodgers fans. Do I apologize? Probably not\u2026 Even with my opinion being wrong, it was so fun to watch him put on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n If there were any speculations of the Dodgers having any interest in Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton, those hopes have been shot down as the Twins plan on keeping star players such as Buxton, Joe Ryan and Pablo Lopez as the team plans on competing in 2026, notes Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers brought back one of their 2025 champions in the form of Miguel Rojas earlier this week,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[169436,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-335409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-dodgers-links","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}