The Seatlle Mariners Ace Felix Hernandez has been the best American League pitcher this year, that is for sure, that is what his personal stats show, unfortunately for him, his team is among the worst offesinve teams in MLB, and we can confirm that just by taking a glance at Jose Lopez BA who is one of the most important hitters in that team, it is 240, the only exception we can do is Ichiro, who hit 200 hits for 10th season in a row; However it is incredible the lack of offensive support Felix has had, he is the SO and ERA leader in the AL.
You see it as a paradox that hi has 13 wins and 12 losses when you check his personal statistics, but the good luck has not been with him.
Last Year the Venezuelan Pitcher was 2nd in the Cy Young voting behind Zack Greinke who no dubt deserved the award. This year Felix's situation is sort of like last year's Greinke, the problem is that Hernandez will not even acheive 15 wins, and he has lost 12 games already. If we take a look at the past we will see that Pat Hentgen won the Cy Young with 10 losses, but the difference is that he won 20 games that year(1996). Felix is in a difficult place when we talk about wins and losses, but there is no doubt he has been the most domminant pitcher of the American League, we'll have to wait until the voting ends to see what happens...
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