Teoscar Hernández was a key cog in the Dodgers lineup during the 2024 championship run, and parlayed that into a three-year deal to return to Los Angeles that seemingly everyone wanted to happen. Year one of the deal saw regression, and the key will be finding out how much was aging and how much was due to injuries.

Hernández had the worst walk rate of his career at 4.8 percent, well below his 6.9-percent career rate and far worse than his 8.1-percent walk rate in his first year with the Dodgers. That fueled a .284 on-base percentage which ranked 138th among 145 qualified major league hitters.

Struggles in right field were the norm for Hernández, whose range was poor, most notably on display in an August 18 loss at Coors Field, in which a relatively routine flyout instead dropped in fron

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