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Watching the growth of Felix Hernandez — on and off the field — since he arrived in Seattle as a cavalier 19-year-old has been rewarding.
It's called maturity, and at age 24, Hernandez is evolving admirably on all fronts, a man of both substance and stuff.
Hernandez's coronation as one of the game's premier pitchers (and there are those who would remove the qualifier "one of," but I'll hold off as long as Roy Halladay and Tim Lincecum are still active) arrived Thursday, when he overwhelmingly won the American League's Cy Young Award.
Some would say the Baseball Writers' Association of America came of age Thursday, as well. No question this year's AL Cy Young vote was being viewed as a referendum to see if the head-in-the-sand dinosaurs of the BBWAA were ready...
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