Kiké Hernandez has been an essential part of the Los Angeles Dodgers roster the last few years, although it has been in more of a Swiss Army knife role as opposed to an everyday player at one position.
That may be changing in 2019 with the starting second base job up for grabs and Hernandez having a huge spring thus far in effort to stake his claim for it. Hernandez hit his first two home runs of the year on Saturday afternoon, accounting for the only two runs in a win over the Seattle Mariners.
After the game, he discussed how it feels to not have to compete for a roster spot for really the first time in his career and instead being able to focus on earning a starting job, via Ken Gurnick of MLB.