Neftali Feliz

As major league debuts go, a reliever can't deliver a line much better than this: two innings, no hits, no walks, four Ks. Those were Neftali Feliz's(notes) numbers from Monday night.

There are plenty of logical reasons to discount the 21-year-old's performance, of course. It was just two innings against the A's, one of the American League's least productive lineups. And one of the Ks was Jack Cust(notes). Everyone strikes him out.

Still, there's no such thing as an unimpressive 101 miles an hour. That was the radar reading for Feliz's final pitch: 101. He hit triple-digits more than once, actually, and touched 99 eight other times. Feliz faced the top of the Oakland batting order in the sixth inning and struck out the side (all swinging). He then punched out Cust, coaxed a groundball from Ryan Sweeney(notes) and a foul pop from Tommy Everidge(notes). Two innings into his big league career, Feliz remains perfect. He entered the season as the top prospect in Texas' system according to Baseball America, so the success isn't a complete surprise.

Feliz will be a starter long-term, and presumably a good one. But over the final two months of the 2009 season, he'll be a member of the Rangers' bullpen. If he brings tonight's stuff to the ballpark every day, he'll be simply unfair.

He should have been a sideshow in a game that featured a walkoff triple from Rajai Davis(notes), eight strikeouts from Brett Anderson(notes), five innings of one-hit ball from Dustin Nippert(notes) and a rare blown save from CJ Wilson(notes). But in the fantasy community -- or at least among dynasty owners -- Feliz was the story. Everything else was distraction.