Orlando 'El Duque' Hernandez Yankees Highlights

Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez defected from Cuba in 1995. He made his major league debut with the Yankees in 1998 and finished 4th in AL Rookie of the Year voting that year. His best year came in 1999, when he won 17 games and proved durable by starting 33 games. That year in the playoffs, he won the ALCS MVP. The Yankees would go on to win the World Series as part of their three-peat dynasty. Hernandez was with the Yankees for all three of those years. He won another World Series title in 2005 when pitching for the Chicago White Sox.

[YouTubeRD]

El duque was a magician. Too bad we never got to see him in his prime. But we saw enough…one of the greatest post season pitchers ever.

[HappierNowe]

Elite talent and nobody looked better in a uni

[chill]

Dude was a legend amongst us when we were kids lol we all would imitate his wind up

[LKECLOCKWORK]

As a Yankees fan can we just go back to the late 90s please

[EpicXplosive]

I don't even like baseball but this guy style of pitches was out of this world, most elegant pitcher on MLB, glad I could see him perform as a kid on my hometown in Cuba ❤

[philbrown]

I used to love watching him pitch. His wind up was the best.

[ChairmanMeow]

My God I loved watching this dude pitch. He was a damn artist out there!! And he was SO CLUTCH.

[Tabui]

The best from favorite team, industriales. Blue blue 💙

[luisacosta]

Uno de mis pichers favoritos, mucho picher tan bravo!!

[TinMan.]

Excellent pitcher, excellent baseball player, but a very humble human
El Duque is a

[miopera]

He came old to the majors, this guy was a legend in Cuba on his prime

[yarmus]

I've never seen anyone perform better under pressure!

[zulylira]

La primera vez que lo vi quede hipnotizada, nunca había visto un juego de béisbol y gracias a él, hoy lo amo. Gracias Duke, eres grande!!

[peterreed]

God, I loved him.
Man, those were the days.

[humbertothebeliever]

I loved watching him pitch. Everyone did.

[ianmoye]

The movement on some of his off-speed pitches was incredible

[franvale]

Peloterazo, lo recuerdo cuando yo era niño y venia al Victoria de Giron a pitchear contra henequeneros!!! tremendo pitcher !!!

[paddy]

Mets fan..El Duque is one of my all time favorites, loved the fans and was a real showman, commanded his pitches well and was most importantly, Clutch

[ejiogbe]

Clase de animal en mi niñez solo iba al latino a verlo levantar el pie a esa altura, aún en el dominó cuando pongo la ficha número dos lo menciono como argot cubano el duque Hernández grande ❤️❤️

[samaboff]

One of my favorite Yankees of that era.