Hernandez, 35, hit .282/.341/.446 with a .788 OPS in 91 games for the Cincinnati Reds last season. In three years with the Reds, Ramon hit .280/.348/.413 with 24 home runs and 121 RBI. During his 13 year big league career, Hernandez has a 12.8% strikeout percentage along with a 7.7% walk percentage.

He joins a Colorado ball-club that saw poor production from behind the plate last season, as the Rockies had six different players combine to hit .244/.348/.391 with 18 home runs and a .739 OPS. Most of the offensive production was provided by Chris Iannetta, who hit .238/.370/.414 with 14 home runs in 112 games.

To make room for Hernandez, the Rockies traded Iannetta to the Los Angeles Angels for right-handed pitcher Tyler Chatwood. 

Iannetta, 28, spent six seasons with the Rockies, hitting .235/.357/.430 with a .788 OPS in 458 games. Last season, he hit .238/.370/.414 with 14 home runs. Although Iannetta hasn't produced power numbers like his 2008 season when he hit 18 home runs and drove in 65, he has produced a consistent on-base percentage number the past few seasons. Iannetta joins Hank Conger and Jeff Mathis on the depth chart at catcher for the Angels, with Conger seeing a backup role and Mathis likely being released.

Chatwood is a young right-handed pitcher who appeared in 27 games for the Angels in 2011. The 21-year old went 6-11 with a 4.75 ERA and 1.67 WHIP during 142 innings pitched, while posting 4.7 strikeouts per nine innings (K/9) and 4.5 walks per nine innings (BB/9). He provided the Angels with some decent outings last season up until August, but then struggled to the end of the season, going 0-4 in seven games with a 8.53 ERA in 25 1/3 innings pitched. Chatwood figures to join an already young starting rotation in Colorado, consisting of top prospect Drew Pomeranz, Alex White, Jhoulys Chacin, and Esmil Rogers.