when Evading call Andy pages To the major companies in the early last season, one of the first things that the coach participating in the beating was to search for the veteran football player Teskar Hernandez.
In that spring, Pits saw a crowd between pages, a 23 -year -old possibility that had quickly wore a miracle of Labrum surgery in the previous season, and Hernandez, an old warrior in the stars he had I signed with the club That winter at the age of 31 in search of a performance bounce.
All camps, pages and Hernández were among the first to reach the beating cages every morning. They are almost linked to the hip in the club and on the background, and they constantly discuss their games.
It was, as Bets and several others described throughout the team, the beginning of the relationship of “the older brother, the little brother” between the two.
Thus, as soon as the pages joined the Grand League list two weeks after the normal season, Bents Hernandez encouraged help in strengthening the message of training employees to the newly summoned rising-and to be a directive voice as he took pages under his suite.
“As a coach, you can go to a veteran player if you want him to convey a message to a smaller man, if it is better or might go down slightly better with telling the veteran player,” said Bings. “Since Andy was coming to the major league championships, Teo was a great advantage for us to get things to Andy. Andy is a trainee. You can tell him yourself. But Tio can see him from his point of view.”
“Their relationship,” Bets added, “Continue to go [from there]”
One year later, a few of his teammates on the Dodgers team are closer than Hernández and pages.
They speak almost daily in their joint corner of the team. They will see each other during the beating, and they are defensive in the meetings of external players. After most of the home games, they will leave the stadium side by side (more than once this year, Hernandez waited in the club corridor, screaming vibrant to get hurried pages to leave). The more their bond is strengthened, the more they benefit from the partnership – they tend to each other while they become an integral definitely crime.
“We have always been really soon,” said the pages through a translator. “We have talked through a lot of things. We have spoken in difficult times. A lot of good times. It is clear that he has a lot of experience in the major championships, so I use it in some difficult times. But we have a close relationship from the beginning.”
When Hernandez first arrived at the Dodgers camp last spring, the pages were not the young Latin America to be attracted to.
Miguel Fargas Those like pages were signed as amateurs from Cuba-he was full-time to the external stadium. Jose Ramos, a dual possibility, originally signed by Panama, also received an invitation to the large spring training.
“Because they were working on the outdoor stadium, we had a good relationship,” said Hernandez, a citizen of Dominican who was in their shoes while trying to try to feel better when things do not go on the right. “
TESCAR Hernández congratulates the pages after the pages retracted Wall Center Field to steal Michael Busch from Chicago Cubs from home during a match at Dodger Stadium last month.
(Gina Verizy / Los Angeles Times)
In the pages specifically, Hernandez found something of a good spirit.
Pages are not an external moving like Hernandez, whose “happy, banned” person Bath his colleagues with sunflower seeds To celebrate the operation of the house. But the pages have the same continuous work ethics, after spending the 2024 season in the rapid recovery of shoulder surgery 2023. He had the same fixed behavior, which helped him win the first promotion in the big league in mid -April last year.
Hernandez said: “We all learned that he would reach the big league championships last year,” Hernandez said. “When you see a good player, you will see it immediately.
For this reason, as soon as the pages join Dodgers, Hernández helped him to refine the mental side of his game.
In good times, as when the pages reached 300 in his first 20 games, Hernandez strengthened his confidence. In bad extensions, as when pages were reduced after 33 games during July and early August, he fought.
“This game is difficult,” Hernandez told him. “You will fail more times than success.”
All players know that upon their arrival in major companies. But understanding the matter is different. And only with experience, Hernandez learns, the ability to move such adversity.
“When you realize it as a player, and you Get it“Everything becomes easier to deal with,” Hernandez said.
It was a similar dynamic early this season.
Although returning to major companies late last year and exploding for a A bilateral match in the National League championship seriesThe pages this season entered the sidelines of the Dodgers’ MLB list. Although he made the team out of the camp, he felt pressure to try to consolidate its place permanently in the major championships.
The Los Angeles Dodgers team has one of the best records in the baseball, but no one seems to feel overwhelmed. Injuries, question marks, and non -hunger strikers are issues.
This strain generates a stagnation, as the pages are hit. 159 during the first three weeks of the season.
But Hernandez continued his support, both in public comments on correspondents and private conversations between the two, with the aim of simply “preserving his mind.”
Hernandez said: “We are not talking about what he does wrong, or the recession he is.” Just try to tell him: “Well, let’s try this. Or that. Whatever it is for you to feel satisfied with what you do in the field. “
Part of the recession, the pages felt of the amendments he made during the beating in the first place in the nine-hole-feeling the need to be excessively selective in the hope of obtaining a base for the bullet man. Autani.
Therefore, recently, the coaches evaded the pages to return to his typical aggressive approach in the painting. Hernandez, who is in another parallel to the pages, is a free slide, again as a reserve for that message.
“I think the presence of a person like this is looking for him, and to design himself as much as he wants to be, great,” said Bings.
The pages not only responded, but also witnessed its results immediately. During his last nine games, he entered Saturday, the pages are fighting.
Hernandez was almost good in the same extension, as it came out of the early recession by beating.
boss Dave Roberts It is not believed to be a coincidence.
“I think there is a kind of common denominator of the success of Andy and Tio [happening] Roberts said this week together. It is clear that Tio established himself as all the stars and was a guide for Andy … But I believe that these men continue to pay each other, which is fun to see. “
No sequence was happier than Last week series conclusion Against Pittsburgh Pirates, when Hernandez and pages were in the same half.
Hernandez’s long ball was the moment of a milestone, which represents 200 at home at his career in MLB.
But his reaction to the big pages later in the half was significantly more joyful, as Hernandez was flying than the hideout and pages involved with Chuck than the seeds of sunflower in the upper step.
Hernandez said: “I was happy, yes. Two hundred, this is a big one,” “But I was more excited about him.”
For those who saw Hernandez and carrying out close pages during the past year, it was not surprising to hear him.
“Tio, he loves these numbers, but I don’t think he is playing for this reason,” Bents said. “He just plays to love the game. I think he is happier when he sees a younger player like that, he can help.”
