{"id":184259,"date":"2025-07-18T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/184259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:55:10","slug":"red-sox-ronaldo-hernandez-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/184259\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox, Ronaldo Hernandez Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox are bringing catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=hernan000ron&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ronaldo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> back to the organization on a minor league contract, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/07\/red-sox-bring-back-old-friend-on-minor-league-deal-after-trading-depth-catcher.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports Chris Cotillo of MassLive<\/a>. The 27-year-old was released from a minor league deal with the Yankees a couple weeks ago. He had a three-day stint in the Mexican League before returning to the affiliated ranks. He\u2019ll report to Triple-A Worcester.<\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez was once a highly-regarded prospect in the Tampa Bay system. The Rays dealt him to the Red Sox in advance of the 2021 season. That turned out to be a lopsided deal in Tampa Bay\u2019s favor, as they landed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sprinje01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeffrey Springs<\/a> in that four-player swap. Boston also acquired infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sogarni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Sogard<\/a>, while the Rays picked up reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=mazza-001chr,mazzach01&amp;search=Chris+Mazza&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Mazza<\/a>. Hern\u00e1ndez spent a couple seasons on Boston\u2019s 40-man roster but went through outright waivers after the \u201922 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombia native played the \u201923 season in Worcester. He spent last year in the Arizona system and made 25 Triple-A appearances in the Yankees organization earlier this year. He hit .221 with a pair of home runs. Hern\u00e1ndez now carries a .264\/.324\/.453 slash line in nearly 1200 plate appearances at the top minor league level. He has been called to the majors twice (both by the Red Sox in 2022) but hasn\u2019t made it into a game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/narvaca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlos Narv\u00e1ez<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=wongco01,wong--002con&amp;search=Connor+Wong&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Wong<\/a> are Boston\u2019s only catchers on the 40-man roster. The Sox <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/07\/white-sox-acquire-blake-sabol.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traded<\/a> depth catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sabolbl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blake Sabol<\/a>\u00a0to the White Sox over the weekend. Hern\u00e1ndez backfills alongside defensive specialist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/z\/zavalse01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seby Zavala<\/a> in Worcester. Zavala would probably be the first man up if either Narv\u00e1ez or Wong sustain an injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox are bringing catcher\u00a0Ronaldo Hern\u00e1ndez back to the organization on a minor league contract, reports Chris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543,34009],"class_list":{"0":"post-184259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox","15":"tag-ronaldo-hernandez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114871515604394475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}