How about Félix Hernández? Despite a 13-12 record, King Felix deserves the American League Cy Young Award for his outstanding season on the mound. He led the majors in ERA (2.27) and finished just one strikeout behind Jered Weaver’s 233 and one inning pitched shy of Halladay’s 250.2 – both of which led all big league pitchers. The Venezuelan workhorse threw six innings or more in 32 of 34 starts, allowing three earned runs or fewer in 30 of them. Had he played for any team other than the Mariners, whose lack of offense cost all of their pitchers, Hernández would almost certainly have won 20 games or more.
King Felix
8 October 2010
>How ‘bout that?
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28 March 2008
these kids have made such a huge splash in the bigs at such a young age (they will all be 22 after King Felix’s birthday 10 days from now) is remarkable when you remember that big-name players like Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling and even Mariano Rivera were in their mid-to-late twenties before baseball fans all over knew who they were.
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