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Boston Pink Sox utility man Enrique Hernandez is now signed by way of 2023. File Photograph by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 6 (UPI) — The Boston Red Sox and utility man Enrique ‘Kiké’ Hernandez have agreed to a one-year, $10 million contract extension.
Sources told ESPN, MassLive and WEEI in regards to the deal Monday evening. Hernandez, 31, was on the ultimate 12 months of his outdated contract. He was set to hit free company this low season.
Hernandez hit .219 with six dwelling runs and 37 RBIs by way of 68 video games this season for the Pink Sox. The nine-year veteran hit .250 with 20 homers and 60 RBIs in 134 video games final season for the Pink Sox. He joined the franchise as a free agent in 2021.
Hernandez additionally spent six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He received a World Sequence in 2020 with that franchise. Hernandez made his MLB debut in 2014 with the Houston Astros.
He entered the league as a sixth-round choose by the Astros within the 2009 MLB Draft. He was traded to the Miami Marlins in July of 2014. The Marlins traded Hernandez to the Dodgers later that very same 12 months.
The Pink Sox (67-69) will face the Tampa Bay Rays (75-58) at 6:40 p.m. EDT Tuesday at Tropicana Discipline in St. Petersburg, Fla.
