MLB / Players

Felix Hernandez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb

BornApril 8, 1986 · Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

MLB debutAugust 4, 2005

Final gameSeptember 26, 2019

Seasons15 (2005–2019)

Seattle Mariners 2005–2019

Percentile snapshot

2015 season — qualified pitchers

23.4

31.2

90.9

54.5

SHO

88.3

180

53.2

42.9

40.3

191

75.3

27.3

201.7

67.5

ERA

3.53

59.7

WHIP

1.180

67.5

K/9

8.52

66.2

FIP

3.69

57.1

FIP-

96.3

49.4

ERA+

108.7

57.1

sWAR

2.7

55.8

of 78 qualified 2015 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

117.9

sWAR

46.6

98.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2006	31	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.7	-100.0	.000	1.8
2007	30	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	30.2	35.1	.226	2.8
2008	31	2	1	1	1	0	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.000	4.000	5.000	1220.7	1164.9	2.021	3.9
2009	34	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.143	.000	.143	-51.1	-56.6	.104	7.1
2010	34	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.3	-100.0	.000	7.3
2011	33	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	-27.2	-17.3	.128	3.1
2012	33	3	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000	176.3	174.4	.421	4.5
2013	31	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	-36.8	-46.3	.121	3.7
2014	34	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.2	-100.0	.000	6.7
2015	31	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.5	-100.0	.000	2.7
2016	25	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	1.9
2017	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2018	29	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.1	-100.0	.000	-1.0
2019	15	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.4	-100.0	.000	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	12	12	4	4	0	0	61	25	23	77	5	84.3	2.67	.996	8.22	2.89	68.9	157.1	2.3
2006	31	31	12	14	2	1	195	96	60	176	23	191.0	4.52	1.335	8.29	3.95	88.8	98.3	1.8
2007	30	30	14	7	1	1	209	83	53	165	20	190.3	3.92	1.377	7.80	3.83	87.6	111.3	2.8
2008	31	31	9	11	2	0	198	77	80	175	17	200.7	3.45	1.385	7.85	3.84	90.5	122.8	3.9
2009	34	34	19	5	2	1	200	66	71	217	15	238.7	2.49	1.135	8.18	3.14	73.1	172.3	7.1
2010	34	34	13	12	6	1	194	63	70	232	17	249.7	2.27	1.057	8.36	3.01	76.4	173.6	7.3
2011	33	33	14	14	5	0	218	90	67	222	19	233.7	3.47	1.220	8.55	3.17	84.6	108.1	3.1
2012	33	33	13	9	5	5	209	79	56	223	14	232.0	3.06	1.142	8.65	2.79	72.7	125.2	4.5
2013	31	31	12	10	0	0	185	69	46	216	15	204.3	3.04	1.131	9.51	2.63	70.6	122.8	3.7
2014	34	34	15	6	0	0	170	56	46	248	16	236.0	2.14	.915	9.46	2.59	70.6	171.8	6.7
2015	31	31	18	9	2	2	180	79	58	191	23	201.7	3.53	1.180	8.52	3.69	96.3	108.7	2.7
2016	25	25	11	8	0	0	138	65	65	122	19	153.3	3.82	1.324	7.16	4.59	113.2	106.4	1.9
2017	16	16	6	5	0	0	86	42	26	78	17	86.7	4.36	1.292	8.10	5.00	119.0	96.3	0.7
2018	29	28	8	14	0	0	159	96	59	125	27	155.7	5.55	1.400	7.23	5.21	126.9	74.1	-1.0
2019	15	15	1	8	0	0	85	51	25	57	17	71.7	6.40	1.535	7.16	6.05	136.1	69.4	-0.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

419

RBI

.0800

OBP

.1154

SLG

.1600

OPS

.2754

Pitching

G (P)

419

418

117th-most career GS

169

195th-most career W

136

238th-most career L

SHO

2,730

192nd-most career IP

SO (P)

2,524

38th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

805

250th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.419

381st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2060

180th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.32

78th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2008-06-23	SEA @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	4	4
2012-06-23	SEA @ SD Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2	2
2007-06-10	SEA @ SD Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	1
2011-06-24	SEA @ MIA Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
2006-06-22	SEA @ LAD Gameday	2	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
2014-06-08	SEA @ TB Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	1	15
2012-06-28	BOS @ SEA Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	13
2010-08-10	ATH @ SEA Gameday	8.0	5	0	0	1	13
2011-05-22	SEA @ SD Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	0	13
2012-07-14	TEX @ SEA Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	12

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.