A year after helping the Los Angeles Dodgers to win their first World Series title since 1988, Kiké Hernandez has been a key cog for the Boston Red Sox, who find themselves three wins away from reaching the fall classic.
As Phillies Nation‘s Destiny Lugardo put it over the weekend, the Phillies are among a large contingent of teams that didn’t give the super-utility star a hard enough look (or one at all) before Hernandez signed what now looks like a bargain two-year/$14 million deal with the Boston Red Sox. Perhaps that was because the Phillies hoped that Scott Kingery would develop into a star contributor, able to move between three or four different positions seamlessly like Hernandez has now done for multiple contenders.