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Mariners director of international operations Bob Engle signed Hernández as a nondrafted free agent on July 4, 2002.
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Mariners and director
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Mariners and international
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Mariners and Bob
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Mariners and Engle
Engle and the other Mariners scouts had cultivated a relationship with the family to explain their plans for Felix and earn the family's trust.
Mariners and signed
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Mariners and Hernández
Seattle Mariners pitcher Félix Hernández hit a grand slam in his only at-bat in 2008.
* On August 15, 2012, Mariners ' pitcher Félix Hernández pitched the 23rd Perfect game in Major League Baseball history and the first perfect game in Seattle Mariners history.
Johnson, who also finished second in the 1993 and 1997 Cy Young voting, and third in 1994, was the first Seattle Mariners pitcher to win the award, and the only one until Félix Hernández took home the honor in 2010.
Félix Abraham Hernández García ( born April 8, 1986 ), nicknamed " King Félix ", is a Venezuelan right-handed starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.
Hernández received a large signing bonus of $ 710, 000, although he said the Mariners were not the highest bidder.
One reason Hernández chose the Mariners is because his idol, fellow Venezuelan pitcher Freddy García, was pitching for the team at the time.
The following year, Hernández came to the United States and began pitching in the Mariners ' minor league system.
Hernández was named the Mariners ' minor league pitcher of the year in, a season that also saw him make an appearance in the Futures Game.
Soon after returning from his injury, Hernández was called up to the major leagues by the Mariners.
Although Hernández was placed on a provisional roster by his native Venezuela, the Mariners objected, citing his earlier injury and expressing concern about the stress on his arm from adding this competition to the demands of a full season in the major leagues at such a young age.
Concerned about avoiding possible injury to their young pitcher, the Mariners declared that they would limit the number of innings Hernández pitched to 200 ( counting both the regular season and spring training ).
Based on his improved condition and a successful spring training, the Mariners indicated that in they would no longer limit the number of innings Hernández could pitch, focusing instead on pitch counts to avoid overuse.
His sizzling performance in June ( 3-0 record, 0. 93 ERA, 35 strikeouts ) would earn him the AL Pitcher of the Month award for June, and on July 5, 2009, Hernández was selected along with outfielder Ichiro Suzuki as the Mariners representatives in the 2009 MLB All Star Game.
On January 21, 2010, the Seattle Mariners and Hernández agreed to a 5-year contract extension worth about $ 78 million, which added to the involved offseason in which the Mariners traded for Cliff Lee and Milton Bradley.
The Mariners offense, however, was shut out by Blue Jays pitching and Hernández was dealt his twelfth loss of the season.
On August 15, Hernández threw the first perfect game in Mariners history and 23rd in MLB history.
It was the fourth no-hitter in team history and Hernández joined Randy Johnson and Chris Bosio as the only Mariners pitchers to throw individual no-hitters.
Hernández is also the Seattle Mariners Ambassador for the Pepsi Refresh Project, raising money for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
When he was called up, Cain was the second youngest pitcher in the major leagues, behind Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners.
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