54 Facts About Cole Hamels

Colbert Michael Hamels was born on December 27,1983, and nicknamed "Hollywood", is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.

Cole Hamels has played in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, and Atlanta Braves.

Originally from San Diego, California, Cole Hamels excelled at Rancho Bernardo High School both academically and athletically.

Cole Hamels was both the top pitcher on the team entering the 2008 season, as well as during the Phillies' postseason run, during which they ultimately won the 2008 World Series over the Tampa Bay Rays; he won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award.

Cole Hamels's statistics declined over the next two seasons, as he struggled through a tumultuous 2009 campaign and somewhat bounced back in 2010 – however, still not approaching his 2008 numbers.

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Cole Hamels flourished alongside them, putting up some of his top career seasons, before suffering from poor run support in 2013.

Cole Hamels was traded to the Texas Rangers in 2015, and he sparked their run to the AL West title that season.

Cole Hamels spent parts of four seasons with the Rangers, including an All-Star season in 2016, before being traded to the Cubs in 2018.

Cole Hamels attended Meadowbrook Middle School and Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego.

Cole Hamels was a "gifted student", and scored a 1510 on the SAT.

Nonetheless, Cole Hamels was drafted in the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft by the Philadelphia Phillies with the 17th overall selection.

Cole Hamels began his professional baseball career in 2003, pitching for the Class A Lakewood BlueClaws of the South Atlantic League.

Cole Hamels finished the year by receiving the Paul Owens Award, given to the best pitcher in the Phillies' minor league system.

Cole Hamels missed most of the 2004 season with elbow tendinitis, making only four starts.

Cole Hamels was called up to the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006.

Cole Hamels entered the 2007 season having done significant work in the weight room in the offseason and at spring training.

Cole Hamels's tenacity came to fruition when, on April 21,2007, Hamels pitched his first major league complete game, allowing one run on five hits and two walks while setting a career high with 15 strikeouts.

Several weeks later, Cole Hamels was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a mild left elbow strain.

Cole Hamels was snubbed from a selection to the All-Star Game despite strong numbers.

Cole 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.

Cole 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.

Ciccotti found no structural damage in his arm, yet Cole Hamels still did not pitch on Opening Day as expected; Myers did for the third consecutive season.

Cole Hamels started Game 2 of the 2009 National League Division Series against the Colorado Rockies, allowing four earned runs through five innings to take the loss.

Cole Hamels started Game 3 of the National League Division Series against the Cincinnati Reds and, for the first time in his postseason career, pitched a complete-game shutout.

Cole Hamels became the first pitcher to win a postseason gameat Great American Ball Park.

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The Phillies advanced to the National League Championship Series facing the San Francisco Giants, where Cole Hamels took the loss in Game 3 giving up three runs as the Giants' Matt Cain shutout the Phillies, en route to the Phillies' ultimate elimination in six games.

Cole Hamels 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.

Halladay, Oswalt, Lee, and Cole Hamels were dubbed the 'Phantastic Phour' by fans and the media.

Cole Hamels entered the 2011 season with a large amount of excitement and hype from fans and the media.

On July 3, when the rosters for the 2011 MLB All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona were broadcast on TBS, it was announced that Cole Hamels was voted onto the National League team along with fellow pitchers and teammates Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Placido Polanco, and Shane Victorino.

Cole Hamels was not eligible to play because he had pitched the Sunday prior to the All-Star Game.

Cole Hamels finished fifth in the Cy Young Award voting behind Clayton Kershaw, Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Ian Kennedy, respectively.

Cole Hamels was ready to pitch by the start of Spring training 2012.

On July 21,2012, Cole Hamels hit his first career home run off San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain, who had homered off of him in the top half of the same inning, the first time in MLB since 1990 that two pitchers had hit home runs off of each other in the same inning.

Cole Hamels finished the season with career highs in wins and strikeouts, and finished eighth in the NL Cy Young Award voting.

Cole Hamels was pulled for a pinch hitter in the top of the seventh due to having five walks, a hit-batter, and 108 pitches through six innings.

Cole Hamels joined Vida Blue, Mike Witt, Kent Mercker and Kevin Millwood as no-hit pitchers who pitched in a combined no-hitter.

On July 31,2015, Cole Hamels was traded to the Texas Rangers along with Jake Diekman in exchange for Matt Harrison, Nick Williams, Jorge Alfaro, Jake Thompson, Alec Asher, and Jerad Eickhoff.

Cole Hamels became the first pitcher to be traded during a regular season after pitching a no-hitter in his final start with the team that traded him.

Cole Hamels received a no-decision in Game 2 as he left the game tied, but the Rangers won in 14 innings.

Cole Hamels was named the Opening Day starter for the Rangers in 2016.

On Opening Day, after allowing two home runs in two innings, Cole Hamels calmed down to pitch 7 strong innings, while only allowing two runs on four hits and eight strikeouts for a 2016 Opening Day win against the Seattle Mariners.

On May 3,2017, Cole Hamels was placed on the 15-day disabled list due to a strained right oblique muscle.

On July 27,2018, Cole Hamels was traded to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Eddie Butler, Rollie Lacy, and Alexander Ovalles.

Cole Hamels gave up one unearned run and three hits in five innings earning the win.

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Cole Hamels pitched in relief in the Cubs' 2018 Wild Card loss to the Colorado Rockies.

Cole Hamels allowed two hits and a walk over two scoreless innings.

On December 4,2019, Cole Hamels signed a one-year, $18 million free agent contract with the Atlanta Braves.

Cole Hamels is known for possessing one of the better changeups in the game.

In 2012, Fangraphs ranked Cole Hamels as having the fourth best changeup in the game trailing only Jason Vargas, Tommy Milone, and Felix Hernandez.

Development of Cole Hamels' changeup is attributed by his high school pitching coach, Mark Furtak, to his having broken his arm in high school.

Cole Hamels's change-up is a soft sinker that just falls down.

Cole Hamels, who is of Dutch descent, is the oldest of three children.

Cole Hamels created and currently runs an organization known as The Cole Hamels Foundation with his wife, Heidi.