Lookout Landing · Oct 31, 2019
Félix Hernández leads Mariners free agents as team declines Wade LeBlanc’s option
Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY SportsWhile free agents are ineligible to sign contracts until Monday, they are officially free from their 2019 contracts. That means, for the first time in his professional career, which began July 3, 2002, Félix Hernández is not a Seattle Mariner. It’s not a tear-jerking moment like his final start, because we don’t respond to contractual technicalities the way we do grand gestures and moments. Still, this is the literal end of Félix as a member of the Mariners organization, and while it won’t truly crystallize in some ways until he signs a contract somewhere else, it’s enough to make my coffee a bit more bitter.