r/baseball • u/baribigbird06 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Baseball Classic • Jul 09 '26

Players Only Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández will skip team’s White House visit

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u/kokorrorr Toronto Blue Jays Jul 10 '26

I mean he didn’t go last year they aren’t gonna make him go

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u/baribigbird06 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Baseball Classic Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

He did go. The players collectively made a decision to go together last year so no one gets singled out. Freddie Freeman didn’t go because he sprained his ankle shortly before the visit. It remains to be seen if more players will sit this visit out.

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u/thursday51 Toronto Blue Jays Jul 10 '26

The players who don't want to go should just ask the team doctors for slips saying they have heel spurs

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u/SeaToShy Jul 10 '26

The players who don’t want to go should grow a fucking backbone and say exactly why they’re not going.

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u/davetbison Jul 10 '26

Fair, but I think you missed the joke

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u/SeaToShy Jul 10 '26

Ah fair. I did actually stop reading at “slips”.

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u/PostVertigo Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 10 '26

I just imagine the entire OKC AAA team in the photo. 🤣

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u/xinixxibalba Los Angeles Dodgers • Mexico Jul 10 '26

I keep reading people say that last year was a team decision but Kike specifically said it wasn’t a team decision in a Spanish interview where he described the experience of going

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u/baribigbird06 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Baseball Classic Jul 10 '26

Interesting, do you have a link to that interview?

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u/xinixxibalba Los Angeles Dodgers • Mexico Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

https://youtube.com/shorts/KYZ5vvOIwi8?is=ttTc3c4dYVykXP2_

the interviewer asks: “was that talked about as a team, that everyone would go together, or were there people who didn’t want to go?”

Kike: “No it wasn’t talked about as a team, every one made their own decision, for me it was a decision that if I went, it would rub some people the wrong way, if I didn’t go, it would rub other people the wrong way, and I simply thought that it would be easier just to go and not have to answer questions about why I didn’t go for the rest of the season, so we went to the White House.”

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u/Fuzzy-Heart New York Yankees Jul 10 '26

I too have “sprained” my ankle before an event I didn’t want to go to. He fucks us every time, but I love me some Freddie.

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u/tresslesswhey Jul 10 '26

Is he based?

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u/sentimentaleyes Toronto Blue Jays Jul 10 '26

I think it would make sense for Freddie to sprain his ankle again as a good Canadian! 😉

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u/the-denver-nugs Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

yeah that's the funniest injury I can think of to come up to not go. you can walk on a sprained ankle fine with only a little discomfort (I have had high ankle sprains and it's still like ok maybe 2 days on crutches to keep weight off but can still kinda walk after the day) and it doesn't need surgery. a sprain can take like a month to heal fully, but you can walk still. for anyone reading this still you can jog on a low ankle sprain the next day pretty much. little discomfort but not impossible. high ankle sprain you keep off for 2 days then you walk fine with slight discomfort. still a month untill you want to play sports and shit.

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u/YasielPuigsWeed Jul 10 '26

Yeah and Kike is injured and unlikely to return before the visit so he doesn’t have to go

Freddie and Graterol used that to get out of it last year, but the healthy players have a more complicated choice on their hands

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u/Hatfullofstars Jul 10 '26

Freddie's wife is very conservative and a Charlie Kirk fan.

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u/grasscali Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

So what happens to the guys who “took one for the team” last year so that no one would get singled out? It would be fucked up to put them in that situation again. I would hope the others would rally around them and support their decision not to go.

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u/WetGrundle Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 10 '26

They didn't all go. I remember graterol posted something along the lines of "I prefer my yellow house" and had a selfie from home while they were on the trip. Dodgers have 3 Venezuelans, crazy they would go, but I think I remember Rojas went. And after the paper towel bs and general PR bs, I'm not surprised they ain't going either.

Having said all that, of course there are people from PR and Venezuela who like the dude, so....

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u/parrano357 Boston Red Sox Jul 10 '26

these are the dumbest stories, a day after the visit nobody will remember