The first victory came on Aug. 9, 2005, 1-0 over the Minnesota Twins, when Felix Hernandez was 19 years, 4 months, and 1 day old.

There have been 99 wins since then, making King Felix the third pitcher to win 100 games with the Mariners (along with Jamie Moyer and Randy Johnson). Which makes this as good a time as any to take a By the Numbers look at Seattle’s ace.

• Hernandez has 78 losses to go with his 100 wins, which gives him a winning percentage of .562. That’s good but not great, ranking behind the likes of Yovani Gollardo, Johnny Cueto, Scott Baker, and many other active pitchers. Yet it looks more impressive when compared to the teams Felix has pitched for.

Since Hernandez arrived on the scene eight years ago, the Mariners are 492-647 when somebody else gets the decision. If you take the rest of Seattle’s pitchers and weight their record by the number of decisions Felix had (22 last season, 28 in 2011, 25 in 2010, etc.), those pitchers would have a record of 77-101.

So, Hernandez has been 23 wins better than the rest of the Mariners would have been with the same number of decisions.