Big League Bound: Hernandez Gets Called Up

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – University of Houston baseball alum Nick Hernandez has been formally referred to as as much as the San Diego Padres Major League Baseball roster, introduced on Monday by means of the Padres.
 
A 2016 eighth-round draft select by means of the Houston Astros, Hernandez performed simply the 2016 season in scarlet and white, serving to the Cougars to a 36-23 report and an American Athletic Conference runner-up end within the league event.
 
The right-handed pitcher grew to become in an All-Conference season for the Cougars after generating 11 saves, turning into the 6th Cougar with 10+ saves in a season at school historical past.
 
The Missouri City, Texas, local completed his profession at Houston with a 3-0 report and a 1.40 ERA in a team-high 29 appearances. Hernandez struck out 67 batters in 51.1 innings.
 
In 2023, the righty has put in combination a three.60 ERA in 46 video games at two ranges. Hernandez has struck out 81 batters in 60.0 innings with a strikeouts-per-nine ratio of 12.2 and a strikeout-to-walk ratio of four.05. He has grew to become in a robust 2023 season so far, proscribing fighters to a .207 reasonable in 54.1 innings. In 11.1 innings within the month of July, he held fighters to a .154 reasonable and didn’t permit a run in 8 of his 9 appearances.
 
Hernandez’s skilled profession began with the Low-A Tri-City ValleyCats in 2016 sooner than a promotion to the Single-A Quad Cities River Bandits. The righty then began the 2017 season in High-A ball with the Buies Creek Astros sooner than a promotion to the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks and the 2019 season with the High-A Fayetteville Woodpeckers and Corpus Christi. He spent the 2018 and 2020 seasons now not recording an trip for more than a few causes.
 
In 2022, Hernandez noticed motion on the Double-A and Triple-A ranges sooner than a Dominican Winter League stint with the Aguila Cibaenas.
 
He signed a minor league unfastened agent contract with the Padres this offseason and began in San Antonio with the Padres Double-A associate sooner than a July 23 promotion to El Paso, San Diego’s Triple-A workforce.
 

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