Cole Hamels
Cole Michael Hamels
All-Star Player
Bats: Left , Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3" , Weight: 175 lb.

Born: December 27, 1983 in San Diego, CA
High School: Rancho Bernardo (San Diego, CA)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st round (17th pick) of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed August 28, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 12, 2006
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Standard Pitching

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Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
2006 22 PHI NL 9 8 .529 4.08 23 23 0 0 0 0 132.1 117 66 60 19 48 4 145 3 0 5 558 115 1.247 8.0 1.3 3.3 9.9 3.02
2007 23 PHI NL 15 5 .750 3.39 28 28 0 2 0 0 183.1 163 72 69 25 43 4 177 3 0 5 743 135 1.124 8.0 1.2 2.1 8.7 4.12 AS,CYA-6
2008 24 PHI NL 14 10 .583 3.09 33 33 0 2 2 0 227.1 193 89 78 28 53 7 196 1 0 0 914 142 1.082 7.6 1.1 2.1 7.8 3.70
2009 25 PHI NL 10 11 .476 4.32 32 32 0 2 2 0 193.2 206 95 93 24 43 4 168 5 0 1 814 98 1.286 9.6 1.1 2.0 7.8 3.91
4 Seasons 48 34 .585 3.67 116 116 0 6 4 0 736.2 679 322 300 96 187 19 686 12 0 11 3029 121 1.176 8.3 1.2 2.3 8.4 3.67
162 Game Avg. 14 10 .585 3.67 34 34 0 2 1 0 216 199 94 88 28 55 6 201 4 0 3 888 121 1.176 8.3 1.2 2.3 8.4 3.67

Postseason Pitching

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Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2007 23 PHI NL NLDS L COL 0 1 .000 4.05 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.2 3 3 3 0 4 0 7 0 0 0 27 1.050 4.1 0.0 5.4 9.5 1.75
2008 24 PHI NL NLDS W MIL 1 0 1.000 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 8.0 2 0 0 0 1 0 9 0 0 0 27 0.375 2.3 0.0 1.1 10.1 9.00
2008 24 PHI NL NLCS W LAD 2 0 1.000 1.93 2 2 0 0 0 0 14.0 11 3 3 1 5 0 13 0 0 0 55 1.143 7.1 0.6 3.2 8.4 2.60
2008 24 PHI NL WS W TBR 1 0 1.000 2.77 2 2 0 0 0 0 13.0 10 4 4 1 3 0 8 0 0 0 49 1.000 6.9 0.7 2.1 5.5 2.67
2009 25 PHI NL NLDS W COL 0 1 .000 7.20 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.0 7 4 4 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 21 1.400 12.6 1.8 0.0 9.0
2009 25 PHI NL NLCS W LAD 1 0 1.000 6.52 2 2 0 0 0 0 9.2 13 7 7 5 2 0 7 0 0 0 44 1.552 12.1 4.7 1.9 6.5 3.50
2009 25 PHI NL WS L NYY 0 1 .000 10.38 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.1 5 5 5 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 21 1.615 10.4 2.1 4.2 6.2 1.50
3 Seasons (7 Series) 5 3 .625 3.86 10 10 0 0 0 0 60.2 51 26 26 9 17 0 52 1 0 0 244 1.121 7.6 1.3 2.5 7.7 3.06
3 NLDS 1 2 .333 3.20 3 3 0 0 0 0 19.2 12 7 7 1 5 0 21 0 0 0 75 0.864 5.5 0.5 2.3 9.6 4.20
2 NLCS 3 0 1.000 3.80 4 4 0 0 0 0 23.2 24 10 10 6 7 0 20 0 0 0 99 1.310 9.1 2.3 2.7 7.6 2.86
2 WS 1 1 .500 4.67 3 3 0 0 0 0 17.1 15 9 9 2 5 0 11 1 0 0 70 1.154 7.8 1.0 2.6 5.7 2.20

All-Star Pitching

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Year Tm Lg Age GS W L W-L% ERA GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2007 PHI NL 23 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2.000 18.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Batting Against -- Pitching*

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2006 22 PHI NL 23 558 493 66 117 26 5 19 9 2 48 145 .237 .304 .426 .730 .291 210 5 3 6 8 4
2007 23 PHI NL 28 743 687 72 163 37 1 25 14 2 43 177 .237 .283 .403 .686 .282 277 13 3 5 5 4
2008 24 PHI NL 33 913 851 89 193 44 3 28 15 2 53 196 .227 .272 .384 .657 .262 327 15 1 6 2 7
2009 25 PHI NL 32 814 754 95 206 44 5 24 18 11 43 168 .273 .315 .440 .755 .321 332 11 5 7 5 4
4 Seasons 116 3028 2785 322 679 151 14 96 56 17 187 686 .244 .292 .411 .704 .288 1146 44 12 24 20 19
162 Game Avg. 34 888 816 94 199 44 4 28 16 5 55 201 .244 .292 .411 .704 .288 336 13 4 7 6 6
MLB Averages .262 .333 .418 .751 .299

Starting Pitching*

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Year Age Tm Lg G GS Wgs Lgs ND Wchp Ltuf Wtm Ltm tmW-L% Wlst Lsv CG SHO QS QS% GmScA Best Wrst BQR BQS sDR lDR RS/GS RS/IP IP/GS Pit/GS <80 80-99 100-119 ≥120 Max
2006 22 PHI NL 23 23 9 8 6 2 2 13 10 .565 3 2 0 0 11 48% 54 83 10 11 2 0 12 5.8 5.9 5.8 95 3 10 10 0 116
2007 23 PHI NL 28 28 15 5 8 4 1 19 9 .679 4 3 2 0 16 57% 58 86 31 5 0 0 11 5.2 5.7 6.5 100 4 6 18 0 117
2008 24 PHI NL 33 33 14 10 9 2 5 19 14 .576 2 4 2 2 23 70% 59 83 22 13 5 0 14 4.7 4.6 6.9 104 1 10 19 3 125
2009 25 PHI NL 32 32 10 11 11 1 1 16 16 .500 5 4 2 2 15 47% 52 91 11 15 5 0 16 4.7 5.1 6.1 97 5 8 18 1 123
4 Seasons 116 116 48 34 34 9 9 67 49 .578 14 13 6 4 65 56% 56 91 10 44 12 0 53 5.0 5.2 6.4 99 13 34 65 4 125
MLB Averages .500 48% 49 98 -8 4.7 4.7 5.8 95

Ratio Pitching*

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Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB DPopp DPs DP%
2006 22 PHI NL 558 82% 3.4% 26.0% 8.6% 9.0% 43% 0.66 0.95 60% 19% 9.9% 9% 82 5 6%
2007 23 PHI NL 743 85% 3.4% 23.8% 5.8% 8.5% 39% 0.76 0.97 66% 16% 10.4% 16% 114 13 11%
2008 24 PHI NL 914 75% 3.1% 21.5% 5.8% 8.2% 39% 0.66 0.91 69% 19% 8.5% 15% 121 15 12%
2009 25 PHI NL 814 79% 3.0% 20.6% 5.3% 9.0% 35% 0.73 0.97 70% 20% 8.7% 18% 130 11 8%
4 Seasons 3029 80% 3.2% 22.7% 6.2% 8.6% 38% 0.70 0.95 67% 18% 9.2% 15% 447 44 10%
MLB Averages 55% 2.7% 18.0% 8.9% 7.9% 34% 0.78 1.06 69% 19% 7.8% 13% 11%

Pitch Summary -- Pitching*

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Year Age Tm Lg PA Pit Pit/PA Str Str% L/Str S/Str F/Str I/Str AS/Str I/Bll AS/Pit Con 1st% 30% 30c 30s 02% 02c 02s 02h L/SO 3pK 4pW PAu Pitu Stru
2006 22 PHI NL 558 2177 3.90 1399 64% 27% 21% 27% 26% 73% 2% 47% 71% 55% 5% 29 17 27% 148 97 7 20% 22 8 0 0 0
2007 23 PHI NL 743 2789 3.75 1911 69% 23% 20% 29% 27% 77% 2% 53% 73% 60% 4% 31 15 34% 255 170 14 20% 42 12 0 0 0
2008 24 PHI NL 914 3421 3.74 2289 67% 25% 18% 28% 29% 75% 2% 50% 76% 62% 4% 33 20 29% 265 167 16 22% 38 7 0 0 1
2009 25 PHI NL 814 3114 3.83 2080 67% 26% 19% 27% 29% 74% 1% 49% 75% 61% 3% 23 16 27% 220 130 10 23% 32 3 0 0 0
4 Seasons 3029 11501 3.80 7679 67% 25% 19% 28% 28% 75% 2% 50% 74% 60% 4% 116 68 29% 888 564 47 21% 134 30 0 0 1
MLB Averages 3.83 62% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 58% 5% 22% 25%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

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Hits Home Runs Advances Baserunning
Year Age Tm Lg PA H Inf Bnt All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd <2,3B Scr SO % ROE WP PB SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS BT PAu
2006 22 PHI NL 558 117 9 1 19 0 10 15 4 10 9 33 15 7 45% 5 5 1 184 9 2 82% 8 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 0
2007 23 PHI NL 743 163 18 4 25 0 10 23 2 13 12 31 17 5 55% 9 5 0 244 14 2 88% 11 2 3 0 0 0 2 2 11 0
2008 24 PHI NL 914 193 20 4 28 0 6 16 12 15 13 23 12 4 52% 5 0 1 288 15 2 88% 12 1 3 1 0 0 4 2 4 0
2009 25 PHI NL 814 206 30 3 24 0 15 17 7 14 10 41 21 9 51% 6 1 0 280 18 11 62% 13 11 5 0 0 0 5 5 8 0
4 Seasons 3029 679 77 12 96 0 41 71 25 52 44 128 65 25 51% 25 11 2 996 56 17 77% 44 16 12 1 0 0 11 9 42 0
MLB Averages 52% 72%

Cumulative Pitching

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Year Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB ERA+
2006 22 9 8 .529 4.08 23 23 0 0 0 0 132.1 117 66 60 19 48 4 145 3 0 5 558 115 1.247 8.0 1.3 3.3 9.9 3.02 115
2007 23 24 13 .649 3.68 51 51 0 2 0 0 315.2 280 138 129 44 91 8 322 6 0 10 1301 125 1.175 8.0 1.3 2.6 9.2 3.54 125
2008 24 38 23 .623 3.43 84 84 0 4 2 0 543.0 473 227 207 72 144 15 518 7 0 10 2215 132 1.136 7.8 1.2 2.4 8.6 3.60 132
2009 25 48 34 .585 3.67 116 116 0 6 4 0 736.2 679 322 300 96 187 19 686 12 0 11 3029 121 1.176 8.3 1.2 2.3 8.4 3.67 121

Neutralized Pitching

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age W L W-L% ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WHIP H/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB HR/9 Gact
2006 22 8 6 .571 3.61 132.0 112 59 53 18 46 145 3 1.197 7.6 3.1 9.9 3.15 1.2 23
2007 23 12 8 .600 3.15 180.0 158 70 63 24 42 174 3 1.111 7.9 2.1 8.7 4.14 1.2 28
2008 24 15 9 .625 2.99 223.0 191 82 74 28 52 192 1 1.090 7.7 2.1 7.7 3.69 1.1 33
2009 25 9 11 .450 4.26 188.0 202 99 89 24 42 163 5 1.298 9.7 2.0 7.8 3.88 1.1 32
4 Seasons 44 34 .564 3.47 723.0 663 310 279 94 182 674 12 1.169 8.3 8.4 3.70 1.2 116

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

All-Star Games
2007 *

Awards (yr-lg-award)
2008-NL-NLCS MVP
2008-ML-WS MVP

Cy Young (yr-lg-rk-shr)
2007-NL--6--1%
0.01 Career Shares (260th)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
2007 NL--3.387--8th
2008 NL--3.088--6th

Wins s c a p y
2007 NL--15--8th

Win-Loss % s c a p y
2007 NL--.750--3rd

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
2007 NL--1.124--3rd
2008 NL--1.082--1st

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
2007 NL--8.002--10th
2008 NL--7.641--4th

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
2007 NL--2.111--4th
2008 NL--2.098--9th
2009 NL--1.998--6th

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
2007 NL--8.689--3rd

Innings Pitched s c a p y
2008 NL--227.3--2nd

Strikeouts s c a p y
2007 NL--177--7th
2008 NL--196--6th

Games Started s c a p y
2008 NL--33--9th

Complete Games s c a p y
2007 NL--2--4th
2008 NL--2--6th

Shutouts s c a p y
2008 NL--2--3rd
2009 NL--2--1st
Active--4--40th

Home Runs s c a p y
2008 NL--28--10th

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
2007 NL--4.116--4th
2008 NL--3.698--4th
2009 NL--3.907--5th

Batters Faced s c a p y
2008 NL--914--5th

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
2007 NL--135--6th
2008 NL--142--4th

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 1 (816), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 43 (573), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 20 (609), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 17 (393), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  2. Mark Prior (958)
  3. Chris Young (958)
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  5. Chad Billingsley (957)
  6. Paul Dean (956)
  7. Roger Moret (953)
  8. James Shields (950)
  9. Jon Lester (948)
  10. Jack Bentley (946)
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  2. Kevin Millwood (967)
  3. Joel Pineiro (966)
  4. Greg Swindell (966)
  5. Jaime Navarro (963)
  6. Andy Pettitte (962)
  7. Mark Prior (958)
  8. Mickey Lolich (957)
  9. Ron Bryant (955)
  10. John Smiley (955)
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  2. George Van Haltren (975)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Mickey Lolich (978)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Mike Hampton (967)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Name and misspellings: Colbert Cole Cole Michael Richard Hamels hammels

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