MLB.com’s Bill Ladson says via Twitter that right-handed pitcher Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez is not retiring from baseball. The 45-year-old was signed a Minor League deal with the Nationals in early July, but gave up his comeback at the end of August.
Hernandez joined the Harrisburg Senators, and after three weeks of pitching out of [...]
10/19/10
Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez was signed to a Minor League deal by the Washington Nationals in early July, but it looks like any attempts to comeback this season are over. According to Geoff Morrow of the The Patriot-News, the 44-year-old Hernandez is heading home to Miami to contemplate his future in baseball and perhaps await [...]
08/30/10
According to Mark Zuckerman of Nats Insider, the Washington Nationals have signed veteran right-handed pitcher Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez to a Minor League contract.
The 44-year-old half brother of Nationals’ Livan Hernandez will report to the organization’s Spring Training complex in Viera, Florida to begin working out. Zuckerman says Hernandez could end up at Triple-A Syracuse [...]
07/02/10
According to the Miami Herald, Geraro Regalado, a man implicated in the murder of four women and inflicted injuries to three others, is the half-brother of free agent pitcher Orlando El Duque Hernández. Regalado and Hernández have the same mother. Current Washington Nationals pitcher Livan Hernández is not related to the gunman.
Regalado gunned down his [...]
06/07/10
Here are your Friday afternoon PRO Rumors:
Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic says that Justin Upton’s new contract includes a limited no-trade provision. Every year Upton can name four teams to which he cannot be traded.
Closer of the future, Drew Storen, of the Washington Nationals may not see Major League action until the middle of [...]
03/05/10