Hernandez Mariners Baseball

Seattle Mariners general manager Jack Zdurienick, left, shakes hands with pitcher Felix Hernandez during a news conference in Seattle on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Hernandez and the Mariners have completed a $78 million, five-year deal that averts an arbitration hearing and keeps the young ace under contract through 2014. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)