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King Felix
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Is incredible.
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He's a great pitcher. Water is wet.
Damn straight.
It's easy to make fun of Seattle sports, the Mariners in particular, but to assume he isn't an elite competitor because he didn't bolt to the Yankees is FS. For the guy that actually goes out there and does his job like he's supposed to, he has to have faith in his franchise at some point.
Remember how emotional he was when he got the contract? He fucking loves Seattle for taking him from dirt poor to filthy rich. He is showing gratitude and loyalty and COMPETING every day to give the team that took a chance on him a chance at a ring.
Like Busta Rhymes once said, "If I ain't gonna be part of the greatest, i gotta be the greatest myself".
As he has aged, he's learned to pitch without maxing out. Unlike many that require junk that ultimately puts undo pressure on shoulders and elbows to be successful, Felix predominately relies on some combination of fastball (variations of fastballs plus sinkers) plus changeups to the tune of 75% of his pitches for his career. That's the kind of pitch repertoire that should result in a very lengthy career.
He just turned 29 this season. Let's assume that he wins only 15 games this year (12 more than he's at right now) and ends the year at 140 career wins. 10 more years puts him at 39. If you assume he averages 14 wins per year over that time period, then he's up to 280 wins. Fairly confident to say that assuming everything holds he'll continue going for 300 (good chance he'll be one of the last to get to that milestone).
From a strikeout standpoint, he's averaging 226 K's per year for the last 6 years. Put him at that number for this season and he'll end the season somewhere around 2,175-2,200 career strikeouts. I'm sure he'll slow down his pace a bit as he ages, but somewhere in the 175-200 K per year range for the next 10 years on average would seem to be very realistic. That will put him somewhere around 4,000 career K's by the time he hits the age of 39. That'd be Top 5 of all-time right now and he probably could get to 4th all-time ahead of Steve Carlton (I'm not factoring in the other generational pitcher of this era in Kershaw).
Quite simply, Felix is about as good as it has ever gotten in the game. In an era where pitchers don't pitch deep into games, Felix for his career has averaged 6.8 innings per start. He's made 30+ starts for 9 straight seasons. Anybody that doesn't think that he's a generational player that has a very good chance to go down as one of the all-time greats if he is able to continue on his current track over the long-term is absolutely FS.