finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2000 right san félix , venezuela 1990 october 1 .253 24 141 catcher st. louis cardinals batting average home runs runs batted in april 20 24 may 1967 carlos hernández -lrb- catcher -rrb-
 los angeles dodgers carlos hernández right
carlos hernández -lrb- catcher -rrb-

carlos alberto hernández almeida -lsb- er-nan-dez -rsb- -lrb- born may 24 , 1967 in san félix , venezuela -rrb- is a former major league baseball catcher who played for the los angeles dodgers -lrb- 1990 -- 1996 -rrb- , san diego padres -lrb- 1997 -- 2000 -rrb- and st. louis cardinals -lrb- 2000 -rrb- .
signed by the dodgers as a free agent in 1984 , hernández became the second venezuelan catcher in mlb history , following bo díaz .
he made his major league debut in the 1990 season , basically as a backup for mike scioscia .
a high skilled defensive player , hernández spent his dodgers career as mainly a back-up catcher to scioscia and mike piazza , appearing in 230 games , including 133 starts .
he signed as a free agent with san diego and later was traded to the cardinals .
in his first full major league season as a regular catcher for the padres , hernández batted .262 , with 9 home runs and 52 runs batted in in 129 games played .
in 22 postseason games , he hit .299 -lrb- 20-67 -rrb- with one homer and two rbi .
hernández finished his career batting .253 -lrb- 315 -- 1244 -rrb- with 24 home runs , 141 rbi , 102 runs , 51 doubles , one triple , and one stolen base in 488 games played .
hernández started his career as a manager with the `` toros de tijuana '' in the mexican league for the 2004 season .
he then returned to the san diego padres organization as a catching coordinator from 2005 to 2007 .
he also managed the leones de caracas from the venezuelan professional baseball league from 2006 to 2008 .
hernández returned to the san diego padres in 2012 as a color analyst for spanish game broadcasts on fox deportes and their spanish radio broadcast on xemo .
hernández owned ` caribbean flavor ' , a venezuelan restaurant in the san diego suburb of poway , but the restaurant closed in 2011 .
