Cole Hamels

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Cole Hamels

Hamels pitching for the Phillies in 2010
Philadelphia Phillies – No. 35
Starting pitcher
Born: (1983-12-27) December 27, 1983
San Diego, California
Bats: Left Throws: Left
MLB debut
May 12, 2006 for the Philadelphia Phillies
Career statistics
(through 2013 season)
Win-loss record 99–74
Earned run average 3.38
Strikeouts 1,509
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Colbert Michael "Cole" Hamels (born December 27, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. Originally from San Diego, California, Hamels excelled in high school both academically and athletically. The Philadelphia Phillies drafted him out of high school in the first round of the 2002 draft (17th overall), and he began his career in the Phillies minor league system. Numerous injury and maturity issues, such as an injury sustained in a bar fight, occurred during his first few minor league seasons. Having reached the Triple-A level, he was the preeminent minor league pitcher in the Phillies system by 2006.

In May 2006, Hamels made his major league debut for the Phillies and has remained there since. After securing a long-term spot as a member of the Phillies starting rotation in his rookie season, he made large strides in the 2007 Major League Baseball season and won the Phillies' top major league pitcher award. He was the top pitcher on the team entering the 2008 season, and during the Phillies' postseason run, during which they ultimately won the 2008 World Series, he won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award and from that point on was the Phillies marquee starter.. After the 2008 season, Hamels signed a three-year contract with the Phillies. He plateaued over the next two seasons, struggling through a tumultuous 2009 campaign and somewhat bouncing back in 2010, however still not approaching his 2008 numbers. Over the next few seasons, Hamels was joined by fellow aces Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Roy Oswalt, and flourished with them, putting up some of his top career seasons before suffering from poor run support in 2013.

Early life

Cole Hamels attended Meadowbrook Middle School and Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, California. He was a "gifted student", and obtained high SAT scores.[1] Scouts were interested in Hamels while he was in high school because his fastball was clocked as high as 94 miles per hour (151 km/h), and his secondary offerings were considered advanced. However, teams such as the hometown San Diego Padres lost interest when Hamels broke his left humerus during his sophomore year.[2] Nonetheless, Hamels was drafted in the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies, who held the 17th overall selection.[3]

Professional career

Minor league career

Hamels began his professional baseball career in 2003, pitching for the Class A Lakewood BlueClaws of the South Atlantic League. Later that season, he was promoted to the Clearwater Threshers of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League. After the 2003 season, Hamels received the Paul Owens Award as the best pitcher in the Phillies' minor league system.[4]

During the next two seasons, however, Hamels was plagued by injuries and pitched only sparingly. He missed most of the 2004 season with elbow tendinitis, making only four starts. In 2005, he broke his pitching hand in a bar fight before the season began;[5] after rehabilitation, he was again assigned to Clearwater, however in July, was promoted to the Class AA (AA) Reading Phillies, where he surrendered the first home run of his professional career in his first start. Subsequently, he was shut down for the remainder of the season with back spasms.[6]:84

In 2006, a healthy Hamels started again at Clearwater, and after a brief stint with AA Reading Eastern League, he was promoted to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons of the Class AAA International League, where in three games he struck out 36 batters while giving up only one walk and one run.[7] His minor league statistics included a record of 14–4 with 273 strikeouts in 35 games pitched.[8] For his performance, the Phillies promoted him to the major league club.[6]:84

Major League career

2006

Hamels was called up to the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006.[7] In his MLB debut on May 12, he pitched five scoreless innings in which he allowed only one hit, striking out seven batters yet walking five, while earning a no-decision against the Cincinnati Reds when reliever Ryan Madson gave up a 2-run lead.[9] In his second career start, Hamels was dominant until the seventh inning, during which he was pulled after he allowed several baserunners, but again received a no-decision.[10] A shoulder injury scratched Hamels from the lineup of what would have originally been his third major league start. He was put on the 15-day disabled list[11] and returned on June 6 to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks 10–1 for his first Major League victory. On August 14, 2006, Hamels had his best start of his rookie season, shutting out the New York Mets over eight innings and striking out nine in the Phillies' 13–0 victory.[12] He finished his rookie season with a 9–8 record (.529 winning percentage was fourth among National League (NL) rookies), a 4.08 earned run average (ERA), and 145 strikeouts (third among NL rookies) in 132 1⁄3 innings (sixth among NL rookies).[6]:84

2007

Hamels pitching in 2007

Hamels entered the 2007 season having done significant work in the weight room in the offseason and at Spring Training, spending so much time there that teammate Aaron Rowand dubbed him "the ghost of Cole Hamels".[13] His tenacity came to fruition when, on April 21, 2007, Hamels struck out 15 Cincinnati Reds players in his first career complete game. He allowed one run on five hits and two walks while setting a career high with 15 strikeouts.[14] Just three days before that game, the Phillies moved their opening day starter Brett Myers to the bullpen to be the closer, making Hamels the team's number one starter.[15] On May 16, 2007, he carried a perfect game into the seventh inning, but then walked leadoff hitter Rickie Weeks and surrendered a home run to the next batter, J. J. Hardy.[16]

"Barring serious first-half slumps, he figures to go (to the All-Star game) every year until the mid-2010s."

The Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Phil Sheridan[17]

For his strong performance during the first half of the season, Hamels was, for the first time in his career, selected a member of the NL All Star Team.[18] As Hamels had been the Phillies only consistent starter to that point, even to the point that one columnist said the Phillies are a joke "as long as we are forced to look forward to someone other than Cole Hamels on the mound",[19] the Phillies acquired Kyle Lohse to supplement the rotation soon before the trading deadline.[20] Several weeks later, he was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a mild left elbow strain. On September 28, he helped the Phillies take over first place in the National League East by striking out 13 Washington Nationals over 8 innings in a 6–0 win.[21] Two days later, the team clinched a spot in the playoffs for the first time in 14 years,[22] and in the first game of the National League Division Series, he started for the Phillies, but surrendered three runs, three hits, and an "uncharacteristic" four walks, while striking out seven in 62⁄3 innings; he was assessed the loss.[23] Hamels finished with a regular-season record of 15–5, a 3.39 ERA, and 177 strikeouts in 183 1⁄3 innings. The Philadelphia chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America presented him the "Steve Carlton Most Valuable Pitcher" award.[24]

2008

See also: 2008 Philadelphia Phillies season

Before the season began in March, Hamels made a complaint about the Phillies underpaying him, saying it was a "low blow" and he was "caught off-guard" with the gap between what he and his agent John Boggs felt was a fair reward for his performance in the previous season and what he was paid.[25][26]

Though Hamels was the "clear-cut ace", Charlie Manuel penciled in Brett Myers as the Phillies' opening day starter because of his team-first attitude in 2007 when he converted to become the team's closer.
There was, after all, another starting pitcher on this roster, a gentleman named Cole Hamels. And if Cole Hamels wasn't the clear-cut ace on this team, then the Liberty Bell wasn't cracked and a cheesesteak was considered an official health food ... Too bad it (putting Myers atop the Phillies rotation) didn't work out.
—Jayson Stark in Worth the Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies[27]:27–8
Cole Hamels in World Series Victory Parade on October 31, 2008

By the end of April, Hamels led the Phillies throughout the first month of the season in most pitching categories, including wins (3), ERA (2.70), and innings pitched (43⅓), and by the end of June, Myers ineffectiveness had landed him a demotion to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies' Triple-A affiliate. Continuing his dominance into May, Hamels recorded his first career complete game shutout against the Atlanta Braves on the 15th of that month.[28] Despite having better statistics than other pitchers who were selected, namely Aaron Cook and Brian Wilson, Hamels was "snubbed" from a selection to the All-Star Game.[29] For the season, Hamels was 14–10 with a 3.09 ERA and 196 strikeouts in 227 1⁄3 innings; he had the lowest on-base percentage-against (OBP) in the majors at .272.[30] FanGraphs also rated his changeup as the most effective in the majors.[31]

Hamels pitched in Game 1 of the National League Division Series against the Brewers, pitching "eight spectacular two-hit shutout innings" during which he struck out nine hitters, notching his first career playoff win, and the Phillies first playoff win since 1993.[27]:49 He commented, "I knew the importance of the game. And it's something where, because of last year, I learned what it really takes in trying to ... kind of mellow out, not to have that sort of excitement where you can't really control everything."[27]:51 He was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the National League Championship Series, going 2–0 in the NLCS with a 1.93 ERA and winning the series clincher on October 15 in Los Angeles. Hamels was selected the Phillies starter for game one of the World Series; the Phillies won 3–2, and Hamels earned his fourth win of the postseason. Subsequently, Jayson Stark wrote,
The names on the list are the names who have carved their legends in the month of October ... We know their names because October was their kind of month, and they belong on that list because they once did something very few pitchers have ever done. They all won four starts in the same postseason. And now they have company ... a 24-year-old left-hander named Cole Hamels. And with every time the Phillies handed him the baseball in October 2009, it became more apparent that he is one of the sports' most special talents.
—Stark in Worth the Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies[27]:157
Overall, Hamels made five postseason starts in 2008, going 4–0 with a 1.80 ERA.[32] Hamels threw a total of 35 innings during the postseason, and held opponents scoreless in 28 of them; he never allowed more than one run in any of the seven innings in which he did not hold opponents scoreless.[27]:217 Hamels was named the 2008 World Series MVP.[33] The Philadelphia chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America presented him the "Steve Carlton Most Valuable Pitcher" award for the second consecutive year.[34]

2009

Hamels started his 2009 season by signing a 3-year, $20.5 million contract with the Phillies.[35] On February 14, the first day of spring training for pitchers and catchers, when asked who the Opening Day starter would be, manager Charlie Manuel responded:
"Yeah, you might as well go ahead and pencil him in. I don't think there's any sense in me playing games. Go ahead, pencil him in."[36]
Hamels pitching against the Cincinnati Reds in 2009

However, Hamels left Spring Training on March 16 and flew to Philadelphia to have his left elbow examined by Dr. Michael Ciccotti. Hamels felt tightness in between innings and after he was done pitching for the day. "This will obviously set me back a couple of days, and I don't think that should be a big deal", said Hamels.[37] Ciccotti found no structural damage in his arm,[38] yet Hamels still did not pitch on Opening Day as expected; Myers did for the third consecutive season.[39][40] For the first time in his career, he went winless in his first four starts, and left back-to-back starts early due to injury in late April, sustaining a left-shoulder contusion and an ankle sprain respectively. From June on, however, he returned to his previous form, recording two complete-game shutouts (tied for the NL-lead), striking out 10 batters in two games, and amassing a 21-inning scoreless streak from August 21 to September 6, all the while allowing just two home runs in his final eight starts.[6] In July, the Phillies augmented their starting rotation by acquiring two former Cy Young Award winners Cliff Lee and Pedro Martinez from a trade and a free agent signing respectively.[41][42] In total, Hamels posted a 10–11 record and a 4.32 ERA in the regular season, his first major league season in which he posted a sub-.500 record, and the worst ERA of his career to that point. Nevertheless, he started the second game of the 2009 National League Division Series, allowing four earned runs through five innings to take the loss. Nevertheless, the Phillies won the series, three games to one. He earned the win in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series as the Phillies beat the Dodgers, 8–6. Hamels started Game 3 of the World Series against the New York Yankees, pitching 4 1⁄3 innings, allowing 5 earned runs and taking the loss. Afterward, he told reporters, "I can't wait for it (the season) to end. It’s been mentally draining. It’s one of those things where, a year in, you just can’t wait for a fresh start."[43] Later in the series, after the Phillies won game five, a confrontational Myers mockingly asked Hamels: "What are you doing here? I thought you quit."[44] The Phillies lost the World Series to the New York Yankees in six games.[45]

Rob Neyer a sabermetrician and columnist for ESPN.com, contradicted anyone who asserted Hamels' skills had deteriorated, instead commenting,
"Last October, everybody was ready to anoint Hamels some sort of superhero. This was largely because he went 4-0 during the Phillies' championship run, but also because he went 14-10 with a 3.09 ERA during the regular season. Last season, Hamels' strikeout-to-walk ratio was 3.7; this year it's 3.8. Last year, Hamels gave up 1.1 home runs per nine innings; this year he's given up 1.3 homers per nine. The only real difference between the 2008 Hamels and the 2009 Hamels is luck."
—Rob Neyer, ESPN.com, August 27, 2009[46]
Phillies' pitching coach Rich Dubee and Hamels himself blamed Hamels' demeanor for some of his decline, noting, "He is such a perfectionist…his approach wasn’t very good last year. His success won’t come back until his demeanor changes" and "The more angry you get, it’s that much tougher to execute your next pitch. I think I let [expectations] get to me" respectively.[47]

2010

Entering the 2010 season, the Phillies traded away Lee, but in doing so, acquired Roy Halladay in a "mega-trade".[48] They did not re-sign Myers,[49] and Halladay was the Phillies' opening day starter.[50] Hamels appreciated Halladay's presence; when Halladay retired, Hamels commented, "He was one of the best competitors who ever played this game and taught everyone around him to prepare the right way in order to be the best."[51] Among his season highlights were a start on June 7 against the San Diego Padres during which he threw 61⁄3 innings of no-hit baseball, winning five consecutive starts including three consecutive scoreless starts from late-August to mid-September, and striking out 13 batters, tied for his second-highest career total, on September 13 against the Florida Marlins.[6] Hamels started Game 3 of the National League Division Series against the Reds and, for the first time in his postseason career, pitched a complete game shutout.[6] The Phillies advanced to the National League Championship Series, however Hamels recorded a loss in Game 3 against the San Francisco Giants, en route to the Phillies' ultimate elimination.[52]

Statistically, Hamels rebounded from his previous season by posting a 12–11 record with a 3.06 ERA, the latter of which was, at the time, a career-best. He also struck out a career high 211 batters. Throughout the season, he was plagued by a lack of run support; in 1⁄3 of his starts, the Phillies did not score a single run while he was in the game. Moreover, he received the fifth-lowest run support in the NL. Nevertheless, he allowed three or fewer earned runs in 26 of his 33 starts.[6] Jeff Nelson "facetiously" evaluated Hamels' season as follows:
"Headcase. Immature. Soft. Unprepared. He wouldn’t pitch on three-days rest if asked. He’s not a big game pitcher. He sounds like a whiny 7-year old – these were some of the descriptions I heard and read from many Phillies fans following Cole Hamels’ disappointing 2009 season. Heck, some people even wanted him traded after what he said during the ’09 World Series. To the naked eye, Cole just wasn’t right two years ago. Fast forward a year later and Hamels all the sudden ‘found his game.’ He ‘flicked a switch’ or ‘put his game face on.’ He was more prepared heading in to 2010 or he was cured from the Verducci effect."
—Jeff Nelson, contributor to Phillies Nation, December 31, 2010[53]
Another Phillies Nation writer, Pat Gallen, wrote that it is "exciting to watch this 'kid' mature into a top-flight, number-one pitcher."[53]

2011

Hamels finished the 2011 season with a record of 14-9, 194 strikeouts, an ERA of 2.79, and a 0.986 WHIP. On July 3, when the rosters for the 2011 MLB All-Star Game game in Phoenix, Arizona were broadcast on TBS, it was announced that Hamels was voted onto the National League team along with fellow pitchers and teammates Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee. He was not eligible to play, however, because he had pitched the Sunday prior to the All-Star Game. He finished fifth in the Cy Young Award voting behind Clayton Kershaw, Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Ian Kennedy, respectively.

During the 2011 off-season, Hamels underwent elbow and hernia surgeries. Hamels had missed scheduled starts in August due to a stiff shoulder, and loose bodies were removed from his elbow to fix his problems. Hamels was ready to pitch by the start of Spring Training 2012.[54]

2012

On January 17, Hamels and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed to a one-year, $15 million contract to avoid arbitration. On May 6, Hamels was suspended for five games after hitting Bryce Harper in his lower back with a pitch, after admitting that it was intentional.[55] On July 21, 2012, Hamels hit his first career home run off San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain, who homered before in the same game. Hamels would stay a Phillie when he agreed to a contract extension on July 24.[56] The six-year, $144 million contract was the second-biggest contract ever signed by a pitcher.[57][58] The deal includes a vesting option for 2019 worth $24 million. If the option doesn't vest, it turns into a club option for $20 million that includes a $6 million buyout.

Hamels finished the season with career highs in wins (17) and strikeouts (216), and finished eighth in the NL Cy Young Award voting. His 3.05 ERA ranked second-best in his career (behind only his 2.79 ERA the previous year).

2013

In spring training, manager Charlie Manuel named Hamels the 2013 opening day starter, which Matt Gelb of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote was a "long time coming", and "should have occurred four years ago".[59] In his first career opening day start on April 1 against the Atlanta Braves, Hamels surrendered five earned runs in five innings and took the loss.[60] Particularly early in the season, Hamels was plagued by a lack of run support; as of May 27, he had the fifth-lowest in the major leagues.[61] He lost his eighth start on May 27, declining to a record of 1–8, which one Sports Illustrated column attributed more to the Phillies poor offense than Hamels.[62] Nevertheless, it was "easily ... Hamels’ worst performance of his eight-year career".[61] Aside from offensive struggles while Hamels was pitching, the Phillies defense struggled, though Hamels kept a positive attitude, once commenting that his luck should improve, as "I've been doing pretty well on the plane in poker."[63] Towards the end of the season, however, Hamels "put it together"; in his final 11 starts. he surrendered more than three runs only once.[64] In total, he amassed an 8–14 record with a 3.60 ERA in 220 innings (fourth in NL) and 202 strikeouts (sixth in NL).[65] Despite struggles from his teammates, Bill Baer noted that Hamels,
"... was worse at generating swings and misses. His strikeout rate declined by 2.6 percent and his overall swinging strike rate declined by 2.1 percent. That doesn’t seem like a whole lot, but consider that opposing hitters swung at 1,774 pitches during the 2013 season. A 2.1 percent decrease means 37 fewer swings and misses. That’s a combination of 37 more balls in play or foul balls prolonging an at-bat."
—Bill Baer, Crashburn Alley, November 16, 2013[64]
Phillies beat writer Ian Riccaboni commented that despite Hamels' poor record and ERA, 25 of his 33 starts were quality starts, and thus he gave his team a chance to win 25 times, yet only got eight wins.[66]

Scouting report

Hamels is known throughout baseball for possessing one of the better changeups in the game.[67] In 2012, Fangraphs ranked Hamels as having the fourth best changeup in the game trailing only Jason Vargas, Tommy Milone, and Félix Hernández.[68] The Hardball Times called his changeup a "killer" pitch to right-handed hitters, noting that while it is also effective against left-handed hitters, when they put it in play, they generally have success.[69] Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux said of Hamels,
"It's a difficult task to try to get young guys to throw changeups, because their whole amateur career is spent staring at the scout with the gun. For a young guy to have a good changeup, that's an aptitude right there. It's pitchability."[70]
The development of Hamels' changeup is attributed by his high school pitching coach, Mark Furtak, to the fact that in high school he broke his arm. He could no longer work on his curveball for several months, and was forced to focus on the changeup.[71][72] Chipper Jones, who was a star-third baseman for the rival Atlanta Braves commented that Hamels is the "best lefthander in the National League ... you have to respect his fastball, and his change-up is devastating. If you're guessing fastball and you get change-up, you're way out in front of it. His change-up is a soft sinker that just falls down."[72] Aside from the changeup, he throws a four-seam fastball in the low 90s (can reach 94 to 96 miles per hour (151 to 154 km/h)), a cutter 87 to 89 miles per hour (140 to 143 km/h), and an "inconsistent" curveball that sometimes loops and other times is sharp, and hovers in the mid-70s (around 73 to 77 miles per hour (117 to 124 km/h)).[73][74] Prior to the conception and advent of his cutter, he briefly threw a two-seam fastball around 2008 and 2009, before debuting his cutter in 2010.[69][73] His cutter, once he attained a "feel for it", helped him increase his groundball rate (percentage of balls in play that were groundballs), including to over 50-percent in 2011.[75]

Personal life

Family

The oldest of three children, Hamels lives in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (though he grew up in San Diego, where his parents still live), with his wife, Heidi Strobel, whom he married on December 31, 2006.[76] Strobel was a contestant on the sixth season of the reality show Survivor (the Amazon). They had their first child, son Caleb Michael, on October 9, 2009,[77] and their second son, Braxton, on November 2, 2011.[78] On December 24, 2012, they adopted a baby from Ethopia named Reeve.[79]

The Hamels Foundation

Hamels created and currently runs an organization known as The Hamels Foundation with his wife, Heidi Strobel. The foundation was created in 2008, and "is dedicated to enriching the lives of children through the power of education by giving them the tools they need to achieve their goals".[80] The Hamels foundation funds childhood programs in Philadelphia and Africa. It has an annual budget of under $1 million, and 100% of the money raised goes to the foundation's programs because the Hamels family covers all of the foundation's expenses. Hamels created the foundation because he wasn't thrilled that some of his donations to other charities didn't entirely go to the cause (some of the money went to administrative expenses).[81]

The Hamels Foundation has focused their attention and funds on the poor African country of Malawi, building both elementary and secondary schools there. Because Malawi suffers from the one of the highest HIV-fatality rates in Africa, they felt education among school children was an essential first step in decreasing the occurrence of HIV. [82]

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