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Félix Hernández

Felix Abraham (Garcia) Hernandez (King Felix) (twitter: @RealKingFelix)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: April 8, 1986 in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
High School: U. E. Jose Austre (Valencia, VE)
Signed
by the Seattle Mariners as an amateur free agent in 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 4, 2005 (Age 19)
Team: Mariners 2005-2012
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2014, 5 yrs/$78M (10-14) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 7.060, Free Agent: 2015 [*], Agents: Alan Nero [*]
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All-Time Rank (among pitchers): #159. Doyle Alexander… #160. Sad Sam Jones… #161. Rich Gossage… #162. FELIX HERNANDEZ… #163. John Tudor… #164. Lee Smith… #165. Murry Dickson… 

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
2005 19 SEA AL 4 4 .500 2.67 12 12 0 0 0 0 84.1 61 26 25 5 23 0 77 2 0 3 328 158 0.996 6.5 0.5 2.5 8.2 3.35
2006 20 SEA AL 12 14 .462 4.52 31 31 0 2 1 0 191.0 195 105 96 23 60 2 176 6 0 11 816 98 1.335 9.2 1.1 2.8 8.3 2.93
2007 21 SEA AL 14 7 .667 3.92 30 30 0 1 1 0 190.1 209 88 83 20 53 4 165 3 1 7 808 112 1.377 9.9 0.9 2.5 7.8 3.11
2008 22 SEA AL 9 11 .450 3.45 31 31 0 2 0 0 200.2 198 85 77 17 80 7 175 8 1 8 857 123 1.385 8.9 0.8 3.6 7.8 2.19
2009 23 SEA AL 19 5 .792 2.49 34 34 0 2 1 0 238.2 200 81 66 15 71 0 217 8 1 17 977 171 1.135 7.5 0.6 2.7 8.2 3.06 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 24 SEA AL 13 12 .520 2.27 34 34 0 6 1 0 249.2 194 80 63 17 70 1 232 8 1 14 1001 174 1.057 7.0 0.6 2.5 8.4 3.31 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 25 SEA AL 14 14 .500 3.47 33 33 0 5 0 0 233.2 218 99 90 19 67 0 222 7 1 12 964 109 1.220 8.4 0.7 2.6 8.6 3.31 AS
2012 26 SEA AL 13 9 .591 3.06 33 33 0 5 5 0 232.0 209 84 79 14 56 0 223 12 2 13 939 122 1.142 8.1 0.5 2.2 8.7 3.98 AS,CYA-4,MVP-22
8 Yrs 98 76 .563 3.22 238 238 0 23 9 0 1620.1 1484 648 579 130 480 14 1487 54 7 85 6690 127 1.212 8.2 0.7 2.7 8.3 3.10
162 Game Avg. 14 11 .563 3.22 34 34 0 3 1 0 231 212 93 83 19 69 2 212 8 1 12 956 127 1.212 8.2 0.7 2.7 8.3 3.10

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg IP G GS R RA9 RA9opp RA9def RA9role PPFp RA9avg RAA WAA gmLI WAAadj WAR RAR waaWL% 162WL% Salary Awards
2005 19 SEA AL 84.1 12 12 26 2.77 4.73 -0.02 0.17 95.9 4.72 18 1.9 -0.0 2.6 28 .662 .512
2006 20 SEA AL 191.0 31 31 105 4.95 5.00 0.29 0.19 97.4 4.78 -5 -0.5 -0.1 1.1 20 .483 .497 $340,000
2007 21 SEA AL 190.1 30 30 88 4.16 4.93 -0.31 0.19 95.9 5.20 20 2.1 -0.1 3.7 46 .570 .513 $420,000
2008 22 SEA AL 200.2 31 31 85 3.81 4.91 0.09 0.19 97.1 4.86 20 2.1 -0.1 3.7 48 .568 .513 $540,000
2009 23 SEA AL 238.2 34 34 81 3.05 4.92 0.43 0.19 94.4 4.42 34 3.7 -0.2 5.6 66 .608 .523 $3,800,000 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 24 SEA AL 249.2 34 34 80 2.88 4.52 0.06 0.16 96.1 4.45 42 4.8 -0.1 6.8 72 .640 .529 $7,200,000 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 25 SEA AL 233.2 33 33 99 3.81 4.57 0.06 0.17 93.5 4.37 14 1.5 -0.2 3.4 41 .546 .509 $11,700,000 AS
2012 26 SEA AL 232.0 33 33 84 3.26 4.75 0.11 0.18 88.3 4.25 25 2.7 -0.2 4.6 52 .583 .517 $18,500,000 AS,CYA-4,MVP-22
8 Seasons 1620.1 238 238 648 3.60 4.78 0.11 0.18 94.6 4.60 167 18.3 -1.1 31.5 373 .577 .514 $42,500,000

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2005 19 SEA AL 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2006 20 SEA AL 31 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
2007 21 SEA AL 30 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 .250 .250 .250 .500 35 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
2008 22 SEA AL 31 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 1168 4 0 0 1 0 0 1
2009 23 SEA AL 34 7 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .143 .000 .143 -56 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 24 SEA AL 34 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 25 SEA AL 33 7 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .143 .143 .143 .286 -17 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS
2012 26 SEA AL 33 3 3 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .667 1.000 178 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS,CYA-4,MVP-22
8 Yrs 238 32 27 2 4 1 0 1 7 0 0 1 13 .148 .179 .296 .475 28 8 0 0 4 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 22 18 1 3 1 0 1 5 0 0 1 9 .148 .179 .296 .475 28 5 0 0 3 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2005 19 SEA AL 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 1
2006 20 SEA AL 31 5 -2 0 0 0 1 -1 -0.1 0 -0 -0.1 .498 .500 -0.1 0.0 -0 $340,000 1
2007 21 SEA AL 30 4 -0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .501 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $420,000 1
2008 22 SEA AL 31 2 3 0 0 0 0 3 0.3 0 3 0.3 .510 .502 0.3 0.0 3 $540,000 1
2009 23 SEA AL 34 7 -1 0 0 0 1 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .499 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $3,800,000 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 24 SEA AL 34 4 -1 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .499 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $7,200,000 1 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 25 SEA AL 33 7 -1 0 0 0 1 -0 -0.0 0 0 0.0 .499 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $11,700,000 1 AS
2012 26 SEA AL 33 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 0 1 0.1 .502 .500 0.1 0.0 1 $18,500,000 1 AS,CYA-4,MVP-22
8 Seasons 238 32 -2 0 0 0 5 2 0.2 1 3 0.3 .501 .500 0.3 0.2 3 $42,500,000

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rdrs Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2005 SEA AL 19 P 12 12 0 84.1 27 11 16 0 1 1.000 3 7 2.88 2.25 .954 1.70 1.68 3 2 40% 30% 1
2006 SEA AL 20 P 31 31 2 191.0 41 16 25 0 0 1.000 5 5 1.93 1.32 .958 1.56 1.54 14 5 26% 30% 1
2007 SEA AL 21 P 30 30 1 190.1 38 13 24 1 2 .974 0 0 1.75 1.23 .955 1.60 1.59 10 5 33% 27% 1
2008 SEA AL 22 P 31 31 2 200.2 46 14 31 1 4 .978 1 1 2.02 1.45 .952 1.60 1.59 19 4 17% 27% 1
2009 SEA AL 23 P 34 34 2 238.2 54 29 24 1 3 .981 1 1 2.00 1.56 .953 1.53 1.51 20 8 29% 26% 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 SEA AL 24 P 34 34 6 249.2 54 15 37 2 2 .963 1 1 1.87 1.53 .953 1.63 1.61 15 5 25% 26% 0 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 SEA AL 25 P 33 33 5 233.2 57 27 28 2 4 .965 -5 -4 2.12 1.67 .949 1.60 1.59 31 8 21% 28% 2 AS
2012 SEA AL 26 P 33 33 5 232.0 37 11 24 2 3 .946 0 0 1.36 1.06 .954 1.57 1.56 17 7 29% 25% 2 AS,CYA-4,MVP-22
8 Seasons P 238 238 23 1620.1 354 136 209 9 19 .975 6 0 1.92 1.45 .953 1.59 1.58 129 44 25% 27% 9
8 Seasons TOT 238 238 23 1620.1 354 136 209 9 19 .975 6 4 1.92 1.45 .953 1.59 1.58 129 44 25% 27% 9
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 AL (26, 0%)
2010 AL (16, 2%)
2012 AL (22, 1%)
0.03 Career Shares (1270th)

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 AL (2, 56%)
2010 AL (1, 85%)
2012 AL (4, 21%)
1 Cy Young
1.63 Career Shares (24th)

Wins Above Replacements c a p y
2010 AL  6.8 (6th)

WAR for Pitcherss c a p y
2009 AL  5.6 (5th)
2010 AL  6.8 (1st)
2012 AL  4.6 (7th)
Active  31.5 (19th)
Career  31.5 (215th)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
2008 AL  3.45 (9th)
2009 AL  2.49 (2nd)
2010 AL  2.27 (1st)
2012 AL  3.06 (5th)
Active  3.22 (4th)

Wins s c a p y
2009 AL  19 (1st)
Active  98 (40th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
2007 AL  .667 (10th)
2009 AL  .792 (1st)
Active  .563 (27th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
2009 AL  1.135 (3rd)
2010 AL  1.057 (2nd)
2012 AL  1.142 (7th)
Active  1.212 (13th)
Career  1.212 (162nd)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
2009 AL  7.542 (1st)
2010 AL  6.993 (1st)
2012 AL  8.108 (9th)
Active  8.243 (15th)
Career  8.243 (205th)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
2012 AL  2.172 (9th)
Active  2.666 (26th)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
2006 AL  8.293 (3rd)
2007 AL  7.802 (10th)
2008 AL  7.849 (7th)
2009 AL  8.183 (7th)
2010 AL  8.363 (7th)
2011 AL  8.551 (7th)
2012 AL  8.651 (9th)
Active  8.259 (10th)
Career  8.259 (27th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
2009 AL  238.7 (3rd)
2010 AL  249.7 (1st)
2011 AL  233.7 (6th)
2012 AL  232.0 (2nd)
Active  1,620.3 (41st)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2006 AL  176 (6th)
2008 AL  175 (7th)
2009 AL  217 (4th)
2010 AL  232 (2nd)
2011 AL  222 (4th)
2012 AL  223 (3rd)
Active  1,487 (26th)
Career  1,487 (191st)

Games Started s c a p y
2009 AL  34 (2nd)
2010 AL  34 (1st)
2011 AL  33 (6th)
2012 AL  33 (4th)
Active  238 (41st)

Complete Games s c a p y
2006 AL  2 (6th)
2008 AL  2 (9th)
2009 AL  2 (9th)
2010 AL  6 (3rd)
2011 AL  5 (2nd)
2012 AL  5 (2nd)
Active  23 (11th)

Shutouts s c a p y
2006 AL  1 (5th)
2007 AL  1 (5th)
2009 AL  1 (7th)
2010 AL  1 (3rd)
2012 AL  5 (1st)
Active  9 (9th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2008 AL  80 (6th)
2009 AL  71 (9th)
Active  480 (50th)

Hits s c a p y
2009 AL  200 (9th)
2011 AL  218 (6th)
2012 AL  209 (7th)
Active  1,484 (47th)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
2009 AL  3.056 (10th)
2010 AL  3.314 (7th)
2012 AL  3.982 (3rd)
Active  3.098 (14th)
Career  3.098 (38th)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
2008 AL  0.763 (7th)
2009 AL  0.566 (2nd)
2010 AL  0.613 (6th)
2011 AL  0.732 (8th)
2012 AL  0.543 (1st)
Active  0.722 (7th)

Losses s c a p y
2006 AL  14 (3rd)
2011 AL  14 (4th)

Wild Pitches s c a p y
2006 AL  11 (5th)
2008 AL  8 (7th)
2009 AL  17 (1st)
2010 AL  14 (3rd)
2011 AL  12 (4th)
2012 AL  13 (3rd)
Active  85 (6th)
Career  85 (160th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2012 AL  12 (4th)
Active  54 (47th)

Batters Faced s c a p y
2009 AL  977 (2nd)
2010 AL  1,001 (1st)
2011 AL  964 (4th)
2012 AL  939 (3rd)
Active  6,690 (42nd)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
2009 AL  171 (2nd)
2010 AL  174 (2nd)
2012 AL  122 (10th)
Active  127 (8th)
Career  127 (53rd)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
2009 AL  44 (2nd)
2010 AL  43 (1st)
2012 AL  20 (9th)
Active  156 (10th)
Career  156 (120th)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
2009 AL  4.6 (2nd)
2010 AL  4.6 (1st)
2012 AL  2.0 (9th)
Active  16.3 (10th)
Career  16.3 (121st)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)s c a p y
2009 AL  42.63 (3rd)
2010 AL  42.22 (1st)
2012 AL  24.74 (7th)
Active  170.91 (12th)
Career  170.91 (60th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
2009 AL  4.1 (4th)
2010 AL  4.8 (1st)
2012 AL  4.2 (3rd)
Active  19.5 (11th)
Career  19.5 (65th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)s c a p y
2009 AL  3.8 (3rd)
2010 AL  3.7 (1st)
2012 AL  3.2 (3rd)
Active  17.4 (10th)
Career  17.4 (55th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)s c a p y
2009 AL  4.6 (3rd)
2010 AL  4.7 (1st)
2012 AL  2.7 (7th)
Active  18.4 (11th)
Career  18.4 (60th)

Putouts as P s c a p y
2009 AL  29 (1st)
2011 AL  27 (1st)
Active  136 (24th)

Assists as P s c a p y
2008 AL  31 (5th)
2010 AL  37 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as P s c a p y
2009 AL  1.56 (3rd)
2011 AL  1.67 (3rd)
Active  1.45 (7th)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
2006 AL  1.000 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
2005 AL  born 1986-04-08 (1st)
2006 AL  born 1986-04-08 (1st)
2007 AL  born 1986-04-08 (4th)
2008 AL  born 1986-04-08 (9th)

                           

Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 20 (96), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 91 (247), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 36 (380), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 19 (331), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Starting Pitcher (201st), 31.8 career WAR/30.8 7yr-peak WAR/31.3 JAWS
Average HOF P (out of 57) = 68.1 career WAR/47.7 7yr-peak WAR/57.9 JAWS

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
200620Seattle Mariners$340,000
200721Seattle Mariners$420,000
200822Seattle Mariners$540,000
200923Seattle Mariners$3,800,000
201024Seattle Mariners$7,200,000
201125Seattle Mariners$11,700,000
201226Seattle Mariners$18,500,000contracts
201327Seattle Mariners$19,500,000
201428Seattle Mariners$20,000,000
Earliest Free Agent: 2015
Career to date (may be incomplete)$42,500,000Does not include future salaries
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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Name and misspellings: Felix Abraham King (Garcia) Felix hernadez Hernandez

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