{"id":232185,"date":"2025-08-07T20:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/232185\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:18:23","slug":"newly-acquired-fermin-has-strong-ties-to-this-padres-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/232185\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly acquired Fermin has strong ties to this Padres\u2019 legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly acquired Fermin has strong ties to this Padres\u2019 legend<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

When catcher Freddy Fermin was traded from the Kansas City Royals on July 31, there may not have been a better place for him to go than San Diego.<\/p>\n

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As AJ Cassavell of MLB.com reports<\/a>, the city of Guayana in Venezuela is home to two Major League catchers\u2014Fermin and Carlos Hernandez, who helped the Padres win the 1998 National League pennant. Oh, and Fermin\u2019s father\u2014Freddy Fermin Sr.\u2014played with Hernandez in the town\u2019s Little League.<\/p>\n

\u201cHernandez has known Freddy Jr. since he was a baby,\u201d Cassavell writes. \u201cHe remembers being asked by Freddy Sr. one winter to work with his son at a ballfield near their houses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hernandez saw something in Fermin then, and his quickness especially stood out to the Major League veteran.<\/p>\n

Now, Hernandez is a color analyst for San Diego\u2019s Spanish radio, and he gets to watch Fermin help a team that sits only 2.0 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers for the NL West lead. San Diego is 13.0 games above .500 at 64-51 and has earned a pair of series victories since the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo bring a little dirt from not only my country, but my hometown, man,\u201d Hernandez said, per Cassavell. \u201cI haven\u2019t been back in eight years\u2026To see him here, it means a lot. For me, and for a lot of people back home, it means a lot to see that guy here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fermin is slashing .438\/.500\/.500 over 5 games for the Padres with 3 RBI, including a 3-hit game last night to propel San Diego past Arizona, 3-2, in the series finale. He made his MLB debut in 2022 with Kansas City, where he served as a backup catcher to nine-time All-Star Salvador Perez. Fermin has a .271 batting average for his career in 771 at-bats.<\/p>\n

Could Fermin follow in his hometown hero\u2019s footsteps and help San Diego make a playoff push? That remains to be seen, but having won nine of their last 11 games, the Padres seem to be rolling at the right time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly acquired Fermin has strong ties to this Padres\u2019 legend originally appeared on The Sporting News When catcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[38887,146,5,6160,2127,55,57,4,26621,43,373,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-232185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-aj-cassavell","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-carlos-hernandez","12":"tag-freddy-fermin","13":"tag-kansas-city-royals","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-national-league-pennant","17":"tag-padres","18":"tag-salvador-perez","19":"tag-san-diego","20":"tag-san-diego-padres","21":"tag-sandiego","22":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114989334844638273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232185","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=232185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}