A Contract Fit for King Felix

One of the biggest names in pitching is staying in the pacific northwest.

Felix Hernandez has agreed to a 7 year $175 million contract from the Seattle Mariners. He still had a couple of years left on his current deal but obviously keeping King Felix for the long term was in the best interests of the team. This is the biggest contract that any pitcher has ever gotten in history with the next highest at $161 million for CC Sabathia to the Yankees. Hernandez will make an annual average of $25 million a year and the new contract is set to begin this season.

I must applaud the move by the Mariners as to take measures in keeping one of the game best pitchers. It seems any team nowadays needs great pitching for the playoffs. The overall issue, however, is still offense for the team. Now getting Kendrys Morales from the Angels certainly helps and they also have a low risk contract with Jason Bay but it's likely going to take a bit longer to get that lineup in order and a playoff team assembled.