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The only Gorkys in Venezuela

We just debuted “McDeep Dive”, our new series that will spotlight one Giants player every day for a week. We’ll move backwards and forwards through time, look at on the field stuff, off the field stuff, and see if we can learn something new about them. Here’s part 4 of our look at Gorkys Hernández.

The reason he takes so much guff from fans and onlookers alike is because of his name. Gorkys certainly sounds like the name of some fringey backup player who’s hanging around almost in a mascot capacity.