― Belisarius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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― jergïns, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
oh man as if the local bloggers didn't have big enough heads already:
An excited-sounding Felix Hernandez credited some unusual scouting help for his return to dominance.
Hernandez was back to his old self Saturday, two-hitting the Oakland Athletics over eight innings of a 4-0 Mariners win that has pushed the division rivals to the brink of falling out of contention. In the clubhouse afterward, explaining the possible reasons for a revived mound form not seen since April, the 21-year-old threw out a tribute to a Web site run by Mariners fans.
On June 27, the "U.S.S. Mariner" site had published an open letter to Seattle pitching coach Rafael Chaves, imploring him to get Hernandez to throw fewer fastballs early on. Chaves was handed a printout of the Internet posting, which contained detailed analysis of Hernandez's pitch sequences, by someone in the stands and later showed it to the pitcher.
― jergïns, Sunday, 8 July 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
link to article pls.
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link
weird how they switch over to AP for old game reports. well, this one has a mention of it:
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mariners/2007/07/hernandez_keys_40_win.html
and the original post
http://ussmariner.com/2007/06/27/an-open-letter-to-rafael-chaves/
― jergïns, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Bryan (Hyattsville): Thoughts on King Felix for this year?
Joe Sheehan: Love him. He's probably going to take a step forward in his command this season, lop off 20 walks or so. Throw in some regression in BABIP, and you've got a Cy Young contender.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 7 February 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I was kinda O_o that Yovani Gallardo (6 weeks older than King Felix) has a higher VORP projection for 2008.
Both have Jeremy Bonderman as #1 comparables.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 13 March 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
THE KING!
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 23 June 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
WOW
― Andy K, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
His grand salami off Santana was the first homer ever by a Mariner pitcher.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
OW
― Andy K, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
That sucks.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
WITH HIS SECOND-INNING GRAND SLAM, SEATTLE'S FELIX HERNANDEZ BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHER TO HIT A GRAND SLAM SINCE CLEVELAND'S STEVE DUNNING ON MAY 11, 1971.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
SEATTLE'S FELIX HERNANDEZ LEFT THE GAME IN THE FIFTH INNING DUE TO A LOWER LEFT LEG INJURY.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
what an apocalyptically strange double twist that was.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bensakoguchi.com/pics/oc-sakoguchi-87-sadaharu-oh-henry-aaron-hank-baseball.jpg
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d08gfZpnDA4
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
hi dere
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
someone tipped me off about this and jsut said "are you still at work? tune in to sea-tb now"
caught the last inning
best birthday ever
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
god damn i love this man
― toandos, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
Bryan Armen Graham@BryanAGraham
Two perfect games in the same ballpark in the same season for the first time in the 143-year history of Major League Baseball.
― toandos, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
"I've been working so hard to throw one and there it is -- for you guys."
― Andy K, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Dave Sims' scorecard, a thing of beauty:
http://twitter.com/TheDaveSimsShow/status/235908401199206400/photo/1/large
― Andy K, Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
Off-the-wall theory from Posnanski about the proliferation of perfect games: that the "proliferation of sports and sports highlights on television" incentivizes/inspires people to do things like throw perfect games.
http://joeposnanski.blogspot.ca/2012/08/following-hornby.html#more
(Skip to part III.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Felix vs. other young workhorses (2000 IP by age 28):
http://www.highheatstats.com/2014/06/king-felix-long-may-he-reign/#more-21847
Sutton/Blyleven/Roberts at the best-case end of the spectrum, the likes of Joe Coleman and Larry Dierker at the other.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
He'll be pitching for a record next time: 14th consecutive start of 7+ innings and two or fewer runs. (Just tied Seaver.) Felix/Sale/Kershaw/Wainwright had a pretty decent weekend: 31 IP, 18 H, 6 BB, 32 K, 1 ER, 0.29 ERA.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
He seems well on his way. 4.0 IP and no runs (and no hits, and no walks and jesus christ)
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
He got it, but boy it was close.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 31 July 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
I guess it's fitting that he'd do it in a game that he loses. (Obviously, not a knock on Felix.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 31 July 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
Even with the record, and being second in the league in IP, he still doesn't have a CG this season (or last season, FWIW).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
the streak continues!
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 04:35 (ten years ago) link
maybe trout'll lose the MVP one more time
maybe he'll deserve to
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
whilst moving i found the newspaper clipping from when he threw his perfect game!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
SweetSpot linked to this piece this morning:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/felix-hernandez-and-the-al-mvp/
"Trying to find a common thread of logic and reason in how the BBWAA has treated starting pitchers in the MVP voting is basically futile."
I'm sure if Trout continues at something close to his present pace, he'll win this year.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 August 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
7+ innings and two or fewer runs
cherrypicked nonsense
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
if their numbers stay about the same, Trout shd be MVP and Felix Cy -- any other result is trolling, esp assuming Angels make the postseason
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
I agree it's a bar that puts Felix in the best possible light--No Time basically made the same point above--but it wasn't cherry-picked for him; Cueto's streak was a story earlier in the year. I definitely disagree with nonsense. I'd like to see the winning percentage for teams where the starter goes at least seven and gives up two or fewer runs--extremely high, would be my guess. (.750 at least? I don't know.) If nothing else, it's a better definition of quality start than the current 6+/3-.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 August 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
it does. and while i told a friend of mine that this streak is one of those things baseball fans/writers conjure up to have something to talk about – it doesn't make it any less impressive. what he's doing is not easy and it's certainly no fluke.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Extremely small sample, but I checked the Indians for this year. I picked them as being a perfectly average team: 60-60, close to the league average in both runs scored and runs allowed. Here are their pitchers when meeting the 7+/2- threshold (I don't think Felix's streak differentiates between earned and unearned runs, so I simply stuck to runs allowed):
Kluber -- 9-4Bauer -- 1-0Masterson -- 5-0Tomlin -- 1-0McAllister -- 1-0Salazar -- 0-1------------------Overall -- 17-5 (.773)
Conceding it's such a small sample, I wouldn't want to read too much into it. But it is close to what my guess was, and it jibes with what seems like common sense to me: taking your team into the 8th inning and only giving up either 0, 1, or 2 runs is extremely valuable--in terms of winning, and in terms of not wearing out your bullpen.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
If the rest that such a starter gives the bullpen is so valuable, it might be interesting to throw out all such starts and compare team winning percentages in all their other games.
― Cindy Operahouse (WilliamC), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link