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To say Livan Hernandez has a mixed success is putting it mildly. While winning two games in the 1997 World Series for the 1997 World's Champion Florida Marlins, he also was the losing pitcher in game 7 of the 2002 World Series for the San Francisco Giants Versus the Los Angeles Angels He'll sport a high earned run average but give your team innings, innings,innings often more than 200 a season in true workhorse fashion. Each positive attribute of Livan's is paired with a negative one. Livan both giveth and taketh away.
His lifetime record now stands at 178-177 and it appears this would be a good time to get out while he's still ahead and still has an above .500 career won-loss record
His retirement looms especially in light of the fact that Hernandez somehow managed a 4-1 record with an earned run average near 6.50 in 2012 and his performance fell off quite a bit late in the season. (Lifetime Livan's ERA is 4.44) His last 10 appearences of 2012 were downright horrible. In a long relief role for the Brewers he managed to avoid having any decisions at all but that 0-0 record in his final 10 games also comes with an 11.77 ERA during that span. In his final appearence of 2012 on September 29 he entered a game against Houston with a 9-0 lead in the ninth inning after Marco Estrada had dazzled the 'Stros for the first eight innings with 11 stikeouts. Hernandez gave up 5 runs in 2/3 of an inning and the Brewers had to call upon Jose Veras to get the game's final out.
This is not to demean Hernandez's many accomplishments. His career started with a single appearence in a game at the very end of 1996 and the following year he burst onto the secene with a 9-3 record plus those two World Series wins and he was runner-up in the voting for the Rookie Of The Year Award.
At the end of the just-concluded 2012 season Hernandez is the leader among active pitchers in career Innings Pitched with 3189. (Andy Pettitte with barely 3000 IP was a distant runner-up in that category). Hernandez led the league in Innings Pitched three consecutive years (2003-2005) and even more amazing by current pitching standards is that he had 10 seasons with at least 200 innings pitched and missed an eleventh 200 Innings Pitched season by 1/3 of an inning. That's a workhorse if there ever was one. Hernandez also ranks in the top 75 in career strikeouts, missing the 2000 strikeout plateau by a mere two dozen (1976 Ks). Hernandez was an all-star twice with the Expos/Nationals franchise making the National League all-star team in the franchise's last year in Montreal and first year in Washington (2004 & 2005).
If Saturday was Hernandez's final major leagues appearence then I can say that my team, the Philadelphia Phillies, did their part to help Livan's career. On August 16 Hernandez pitched well enough in relief to earn a win over the Phillies. That win, which may be his final career decision, pushed his lifetime record over the .500 mark
(178-177, .501 Win Pctg.). Now ,however, might be the right time for Livan to quit while he's ahead.
by Dennis Orlandini (philliesfiend55).
His lifetime record now stands at 178-177 and it appears this would be a good time to get out while he's still ahead and still has an above .500 career won-loss record
His retirement looms especially in light of the fact that Hernandez somehow managed a 4-1 record with an earned run average near 6.50 in 2012 and his performance fell off quite a bit late in the season. (Lifetime Livan's ERA is 4.44) His last 10 appearences of 2012 were downright horrible. In a long relief role for the Brewers he managed to avoid having any decisions at all but that 0-0 record in his final 10 games also comes with an 11.77 ERA during that span. In his final appearence of 2012 on September 29 he entered a game against Houston with a 9-0 lead in the ninth inning after Marco Estrada had dazzled the 'Stros for the first eight innings with 11 stikeouts. Hernandez gave up 5 runs in 2/3 of an inning and the Brewers had to call upon Jose Veras to get the game's final out.
This is not to demean Hernandez's many accomplishments. His career started with a single appearence in a game at the very end of 1996 and the following year he burst onto the secene with a 9-3 record plus those two World Series wins and he was runner-up in the voting for the Rookie Of The Year Award.
At the end of the just-concluded 2012 season Hernandez is the leader among active pitchers in career Innings Pitched with 3189. (Andy Pettitte with barely 3000 IP was a distant runner-up in that category). Hernandez led the league in Innings Pitched three consecutive years (2003-2005) and even more amazing by current pitching standards is that he had 10 seasons with at least 200 innings pitched and missed an eleventh 200 Innings Pitched season by 1/3 of an inning. That's a workhorse if there ever was one. Hernandez also ranks in the top 75 in career strikeouts, missing the 2000 strikeout plateau by a mere two dozen (1976 Ks). Hernandez was an all-star twice with the Expos/Nationals franchise making the National League all-star team in the franchise's last year in Montreal and first year in Washington (2004 & 2005).
If Saturday was Hernandez's final major leagues appearence then I can say that my team, the Philadelphia Phillies, did their part to help Livan's career. On August 16 Hernandez pitched well enough in relief to earn a win over the Phillies. That win, which may be his final career decision, pushed his lifetime record over the .500 mark
(178-177, .501 Win Pctg.). Now ,however, might be the right time for Livan to quit while he's ahead.
by Dennis Orlandini (philliesfiend55).
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