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Félix Hernández

Felix Abraham (Garcia) Hernandez (King Felix)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 225 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
Team: Mariners 2005-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2014, 5 yrs/$78M (10-14) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 6.060, Free Agent: 2015 [*], Agents: Alan Nero [*]
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 3, 2012, 8:08PM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #131. Mel Stottlemyre… #132. Claude Osteen… #133. Wilbur Wood… #134. FELIX HERNANDEZ… #135. Noodles Hahn… #136. Jered Weaver… #137. Kenny Rogers… 

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 17 977 172 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 12 964 111 1.220 8.4 0.7 2.6 8.6 3.31 AS
7 Seasons 85 67 .559 3.24 205 205 0 18 4 0 1388.1 1275 564 500 116 424 14 1264 42 5 72 5751 129 1.224 8.3 0.8 2.7 8.2 2.98
162 Game Avg. 14 11 .559 3.24 34 34 0 3 1 0 230 211 94 83 19 70 2 210 7 1 12 954 129 1.224 8.3 0.8 2.7 8.2 2.98

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg IP GS R Rrep Rdef aLI RAR WAR Salary Awards
2005 19 SEA AL 84.1 12 26 53 -1 1.1 27 2.9 $
2006 20 SEA AL 191.0 31 105 123 0 1.0 18 1.7 $340,000
2007 21 SEA AL 190.1 30 88 121 -2 1.0 33 3.3 $420,000
2008 22 SEA AL 200.2 31 85 128 -1 1.1 43 4.5 $540,000
2009 23 SEA AL 238.2 34 81 135 14 1.1 54 5.8 $3,800,000 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 24 SEA AL 249.2 34 80 139 6 1.0 59 6.2 $7,200,000 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 25 SEA AL 233.2 33 99 142 -1 1.1 43 4.7 $11,700,000 AS
7 Seasons 1388.1 205 564 841 15 1.0 277 29.1 $24,000,000

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 1165 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 2 7 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .143 .143 .143 .286 -18 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS
7 Seasons 174 29 24 2 3 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 12 .125 .160 .250 .410 10 6 0 0 4 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 27 22 2 3 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 11 .125 .160 .250 .410 10 6 0 0 4 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
2006 20 SEA AL 5 -1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $340,000 1
2007 21 SEA AL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $420,000 1
2008 22 SEA AL 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $540,000 1
2009 23 SEA AL 7 -1 0 -0 0 0 1 0 -0 0.0 -0 0.0 0.0 $3,800,000 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 24 SEA AL 4 -0 0 -0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $7,200,000 1 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 25 SEA AL 7 -1 0 -0 0 0 1 0 -0 0.0 -0 0.0 0.0 $11,700,000 1 AS
6 Seasons 29 -3 0 -0 0 0 3 0 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $24,000,000

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% 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% 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% 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% 1
2008 SEA AL 22 P 31 31 2 200.2 46 14 31 1 4 .978 2 2 2.02 1.45 .952 1.60 1.59 19 4 17% 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% 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-26
2010 SEA AL 24 P 34 34 6 249.2 54 15 37 2 2 .963 4 3 1.87 1.53 .953 1.63 1.61 15 5 25% 0 CYA-1,MVP-16
2011 SEA AL 25 P 33 33 5 233.2 57 27 28 2 4 .965 -4 -3 2.12 1.67 .949 1.60 1.59 31 8 21% 2 AS
7 Seasons P 205 205 18 1388.1 317 125 185 7 16 .978 11 1 2.01 1.51 .953 1.59 1.58 112 37 25% 7
7 Seasons TOT 205 205 18 1388.1 317 125 185 7 16 .978 11 9 2.01 1.51 .953 1.59 1.58 112 37 25% 7
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

All-Star Games
2009 *
2011

Awards (yr lg award)
2010 AL Cy Young
2010 AL TSN Pitcher of the Year

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 AL (26, 0%)
2010 AL (16, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1362nd)

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 AL (2, 56%)
2010 AL (1, 85%)
1 Cy Young
1.42 Career Shares (32nd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2010 AL  6.2 (6th)

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
2008 AL  4.5 (9th)
2009 AL  5.8 (3rd)
2010 AL  6.2 (1st)
Active  29.1 (18th)
Career  29.1 (247th)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
2008 AL  3.45 (9th)
2009 AL  2.49 (2nd)
2010 AL  2.27 (1st)
Active  3.24 (6th)

Wins s c a p y
2009 AL  19 (1st)
Active  85 (47th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
2007 AL  .667 (10th)
2009 AL  .792 (1st)
Active  .559 (27th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
2009 AL  1.135 (3rd)
2010 AL  1.057 (2nd)
Active  1.224 (14th)
Career  1.224 (192nd)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
2009 AL  7.542 (1st)
2010 AL  6.993 (1st)
Active  8.265 (17th)
Career  8.265 (210th)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
Active  2.749 (31st)

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)
Active  8.194 (13th)
Career  8.194 (29th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
2009 AL  238.7 (3rd)
2010 AL  249.7 (1st)
2011 AL  233.7 (6th)
Active  1,388.3 (44th)

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)
Active  1,264 (31st)

Games Started s c a p y
2009 AL  34 (2nd)
2010 AL  34 (1st)
2011 AL  33 (6th)
Active  205 (46th)

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)
Active  18 (14th)

Shutouts s c a p y
2006 AL  1 (5th)
2007 AL  1 (5th)
2009 AL  1 (7th)
2010 AL  1 (3rd)
Active  4 (35th)

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

Hits s c a p y
2009 AL  200 (9th)
2011 AL  218 (6th)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
2009 AL  3.056 (10th)
2010 AL  3.314 (7th)
Active  2.981 (14th)
Career  2.981 (41st)

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)
Active  0.752 (10th)

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)
Active  72 (11th)
Career  72 (234th)

Batters Faced s c a p y
2009 AL  977 (2nd)
2010 AL  1,001 (1st)
2011 AL  964 (4th)
Active  5,751 (46th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
2009 AL  172 (2nd)
2010 AL  174 (2nd)
Active  129 (7th)
Career  129 (44th)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
2009 AL  45 (2nd)
2010 AL  43 (1st)
Active  139 (11th)
Career  139 (142nd)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
2009 AL  4.7 (2nd)
2010 AL  4.6 (1st)
Active  14.6 (11th)
Career  14.6 (143rd)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
2009 AL  42.80 (3rd)
2010 AL  42.10 (1st)
Active  148.55 (15th)
Career  148.55 (85th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2009 AL  4.1 (4th)
2010 AL  4.8 (1st)
Active  14.9 (15th)
Career  14.9 (99th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2009 AL  3.8 (3rd)
2010 AL  3.7 (1st)
Active  13.9 (13th)
Career  13.9 (77th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
2009 AL  4.5 (3rd)
2010 AL  4.7 (1st)
Active  15.9 (13th)
Career  15.9 (81st)

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

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  1.51 (8th)

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 1950-1973, 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 - 19 (107), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 72 (339), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 30 (445), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 17 (403), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  2. Pat Jarvis (942)
  3. Ed Figueroa (941)
  4. Ed Seward (939)
  5. Doug Rau (937)
  6. Ervin Santana (935)
  7. Larry Christenson (934)
  8. Ewell Blackwell (933)
  9. Teddy Higuera (933)
  10. Jered Weaver (932)
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  1. Dennis Eckersley (963) *
  2. Joe Coleman (960)
  3. Larry Dierker (951)
  4. Van Mungo (943)
  5. Bret Saberhagen (939)
  6. Frank Tanana (938)
  7. Mike Witt (935)
  8. Don Drysdale (931) *
  9. Milt Pappas (931)
  10. Lee Viau (930)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Catfish Hunter (980) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Jack Taylor (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Bullet Joe Bush (967)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Denny McLain (975)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Dennis Eckersley (964) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Dennis Eckersley (963) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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
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$18,500,000
201327Seattle Mariners$19,500,000
201428Seattle Mariners$20,000,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$24,000,000Does not include future salaries
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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