Mariners’ Teoscar Hernandez feels the love for return to Toronto vs. Blue Jays

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Published 28.04.2023

Mariners’ Teoscar Hernandez feels the love for return to Toronto vs. Blue Jays

TORONTO — Teoscar Hernandez stood on the right-field foul line along with his Seattle Mariners teammates simply earlier than Friday evening’s sport along with his eyes mounted on the Rogers Centre video board.

About 90 ft away, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was by himself close to second base, palms on his hips, wanting up.

A one-minute tribute of highlights from Hernandez’s time with the Blue Jays was being proven on the display, concluding with the phrases, “Thank you Teo.”

It elicited a standing ovation from the gang and, as the previous Blue Jays right-fielder waved to point out his appreciation, Guerrero Jr. additionally put his palms collectively.

Players returning to their outdated stomping grounds is commonplace, however this felt just a bit totally different. Perhaps a bit of extra emotional. Hernandez and his trademark smile had been nearly a visible hallmark of Blue Jays golf equipment from the previous a number of years.

Guerrero Jr. has mentioned when he’s not enjoying, he’ll usually activate Mariners video games to see how his shut buddy and fellow Dominican is faring.

Hernandez, chatting with reporters earlier than Friday’s sequence opener between the Mariners and Blue Jays, mentioned that’s mutual.

“The same thing,” Hernandez mentioned. “I spent so much time with that group. And I feel for them — I want them to be good and I want them to be great.”

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Hernandez was shipped to the Mariners final November in trade for reliever Erik Swanson and minor-league pitcher Adam Macko, kicking off an eventful low season filled with transactions for the Blue Jays.

“It was not a surprise,” Hernandez mentioned of the deal, noting that he’d seen rumours on social media that he could possibly be on the transfer. “I wasn’t considering it was going to be that fast, but it surely occurred instantly within the low season. It undoubtedly is one thing that you simply by no means anticipated, particularly me — I used to be right here for six years and spent plenty of time with the boys.

“But, it is what it is: A business. They do the best that they can to make the team better. That’s the way they feel.”

Asked what was going by his thoughts on the time of the commerce, Hernandez responded: “A lot of questions, but at the end of the day, whatever I think doesn’t matter. So, I take it the best way that I can take it and just keep going and do the best that I can do to help my team.”

The Blue Jays acquired Hernandez within the July 2017 deal that despatched left-hander Francisco Liriano to the Houston Astros. After a couple of middling years, he broke out throughout the pandemic-shortened 2020 marketing campaign to win the primary of consecutive Silver Slugger awards. He was named an all-star throughout the 2021 season that noticed him crush 32 dwelling runs and put up a 131 OPS-plus.

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In complete, he launched 129 homers throughout his Blue Jays tenure, rating eleventh on the franchise’s all-time checklist.

“I’ve known him for a while,” mentioned Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider. “Homers come to thoughts … Throwing BP to him daily for years, that jumps out to me.

“He’s such a good dude, too,” Schneider added. “So, there’s a lot of [memories] for sure.”

Hernandez is off to a gradual begin along with his new membership, producing a slash line of .224/.260/.439 coming into Friday’s contest. However, his six homers trailed solely Jarred Kelenic (seven) for the crew lead.

The right-fielder says he’s shortly meshed along with his new teammates.

“The group that they have here is just basically the way I am,” mentioned Hernandez. “They need to have enjoyable. Loads of jokes across the clubhouse, enjoying round. And that’s the way in which I’m. I’m a man who likes to be comfortable, to be having fun with the second and doing what we do.

“And, at the end of the day, we spend too much time together. So, that’s the way I think is the best way to get through everything — the bad ones and the good ones during the season. And that’s why I think I felt so welcomed when I got here.”

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Friday’s sport, in fact, was a rematch of final yr’s wild-card sequence during which the Mariners stunningly got here again from an 8-1 deficit in Game 2 to eradicate the Blue Jays. Hernandez, who clubbed two homers within the affair, says his teammates take pleasure in ribbing him about being on the shedding facet of it.

“They always say, ‘sorry,’ before they start talking about it,” he mentioned with amusing. “But at the end of the day, it’s baseball. At the end of the game, somebody has to win, somebody has to lose. That day, they played better than us.”

While Hernandez flashed his smile when speaking about Mariners teammates, he did specific that he “missed all the guys” on the opposite facet. As properly, he admitted there was as soon as a time when he thought he’d be a Blue Jay for all times.

“You always want to think that way,” he mentioned. “I’m not the guy that wants to be bouncing around 10 different teams. I wanted to stay on and just stay that way as long as I can and try to do my thing.”