Livan Hernandez Net Worth, salary and career income: Livan Hernandez is a former Cuban professional baseball player with a Fortune 0 million dollars. He is the half-brother of former MLB pitcher Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez.

Born Eisler Livan Hernandez Carrera in Villa Clara, Cuba, in 1975, Livan Hernandez defected to the United States at the age of 20 in 1995. A year earlier, he had helped Cuba win a gold medal at the 1994 World Cup of Baseball in Managua.

Hernandez made his Major League Baseball debut in 1996 with the Florida Marlins, and stayed with the team until 1999.

He then began his career as a journeyman, playing with the San Francisco Giants from 1999 to 2002, the Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals. from 2003 to 2006, the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2006 to 2007, the Minnesota Twins and Colorado Rockies in 2008, the New York Mets in 2009, the Washington Nationals a second time from 2009 to 2011, and finally the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers in 2012 Hernandez ended his professional playing career with a win-loss record of 178-177 to go along with a deserved point average of 4.44 and 1,976 batting retirements. He won a World Series title with the Marlins in 1997 and was named World Series MVP that year. Hernandez also won the NLCS MVP honours in 1997. He is a two-time MLB All-Star (2004, 2005) and won the Silver Slugger Award in 2004.

Livan Hernandez in bankruptcyAfter earning over $53 million in salary alone, in July 2017, Livan filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in Florida. In the file, Livan claims to owe up to $1 million to 50 creditors. Much of this debt was owed to credit card companies, banks and the IRS. He also owes approximately $220,000 to a local businessman who gave him a loan. He claims to be worth less than $50,000 today.

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