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Félix Hernández

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #34

Born: April 8, 1986 in Valencia, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 4, 2005

dbWAR: 3.3
IP: 71.2
ERA: 6.40
FIP: 6.00
K/9: 7.2
FIP−: 133

Félix Hernández was a starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2019 he struck out 57 batters over 71.2 innings across 15 appearances, 15 of them starts, going 1-8. His ERA of 6.40 was 42.2% higher than the league average of 4.51 — the worst on his team, and 480th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.00 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.6% of swings (9.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.5%. His -0.3 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2019.

FIP6.00

K/97.2

WHIP1.53

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	SEA	15	15	71.2	1	8	85	51	57	25	6.40	6.00	1.53	7.2	3.1	142	133	-0.3
2018	SEA	29	28	155.2	8	14	159	96	125	59	5.55	5.18	1.40	7.2	3.4	134	125	-0.2
2017	SEA	16	16	86.2	6	5	86	42	78	26	4.36	5.02	1.29	8.1	2.7	100	115	0.3
2016	SEA	25	25	153.1	11	8	138	65	122	65	3.82	4.63	1.32	7.2	3.8	91	111	1.0
2015	SEA	31	31	201.2	18	9	180	79	191	58	3.53	3.72	1.18	8.5	2.6	89	94	2.8

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	SEA	2	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-121	-0.0
2018	SEA	2	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-1.0	-126	-0.0
2016	SEA	3	8	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	37.5%	.000	-2.0	-119	-0.1
2015	SEA	1	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-127	-0.0

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	134	119	35	6	14	27	.294	.373	.546	.387	20.1%
vs RHB	191	173	50	11	11	30	.289	.347	.555	.376	15.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Félix Hernández throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Curveball	35.2%	428	79.3	2,441	50.2%	27.2%	83	.217	.700
Sinker	32.2%	391	89.4	2,059	41.9%	11.8%	106	.358	1.103
Changeup	16.2%	197	84.7	1,733	32.5%	23.2%	65	.246	.685
Slider	9.0%	109	83.8	2,316	43.1%	31.5%	23	.174	.600
Four-Seam Fastball	7.5%	91	89.9	2,150	44.0%	17.2%	16	.563	1.962

Félix Hernández's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

Nearest 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kyle FreelandCOL

ERA: 6.73
FIP: 5.99
SO: 79
WAR: -0.1

Very close

Clay BuchholzTOR

ERA: 6.56
FIP: 5.62
SO: 39
WAR: 0.0

Very close

Yusei KikuchiSEA

ERA: 5.46
FIP: 5.71
SO: 116
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Nick MargeviciusSD

ERA: 6.79
FIP: 5.64
SO: 42
WAR: -0.2

Very close

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.