Hernandez, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles and Arizona Diamondbacks, signed a one-year contract with the Phillies. He will come to spring training as one of the clear front-runners now in the battle for spots in the team’s bullpen.
The 30-year old righthander has pitched parts of six seasons in Major League Baseball, beginning as a starter back in the 2009 season with Baltimore. The Orioles began converting him to the bullpen in 2010, and then traded him to Arizona in December of 2010 in exchange for slugger Mark Reynolds.
With the DBacks, Hernandez blossomed into a primary bullpen piece before succumbing to Tommy John surgery and missing the entire 2014 season, as well as much of the first half of the 2015 season.