If you don’t remember or never read Herrera’s background story, then please read my 2022 player review and you will get to know the most important baseball related stuff to the player with the longest presence in the organisation: Herrera was signed in July 2013 by a front office under the guidance of Kevin Towers.
That was 11 years ago. Ever since he first hit the team’s prospect lists in 2014, one thing has always been consistent about Jose Herrera: a defence-over-offence-profile.
That doesn’t necessarily mean Jose Herrera is terrific behind the plate, he is not, but it is enough to hang on as a back-up catcher for the moment, although Herrera’s presence on the 26-man roster is a combination of luck, doing just enough and other back-ups not doing what they are expected to do, which is: be better than Jose Herrera.