In Major League Baseball, if you can throw a 100-mile-per-hour fastball, you’ll probably get more than your fair share of second chances. The Kansas City Royals cut ties with relief pitcher Carlos Hernandez before the season, after he spent 2024 bouncing up and down between the major leagues and Triple-A. He was one of the final roster cuts at the end of spring training, and he landed with the Philadelphia Phillies on a late-March waiver claim.