Felix Hernandez and Justin Verlander share more than highly prized right arms that have earned them a combined $333.3 million.
They made their MLB debuts a month apart, in 2005. Both are six-time All Stars who’ve won one Cy Young Award and have finished within a few votes of winning a second.
Each has benefited from playing in a ballpark with a spacious outfield. The notion of Hernandez wearing a home uniform anywhere but in Safeco Field is as inconceivable as Verlander wearing a home uniform anywhere but in Comerica Park.
Hernandez has made 364 starts, with 2,286 strikeouts over 2,442 innings.