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Justin Verlander
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 240 lb · born Manakin-Sabot, VA, USA · age 43 · draft 2004 rd 1 · played P 4 · MLB debut 2005-07-04
39 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Verlander is 43, out of Manakin-Sabot, Virginia, still taking the ball for Detroit with 3,560 career strikeouts behind him. He fanned 6 in his one MLB outing these last two weeks — a number that still means something at his age.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Verlander here — The Buzz September 27, 2026
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $10.0M
- Guaranteed
- $13.0M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $13.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Justin Verlander
The scouting press, in their own words
Max Scherzer has 7 strikeouts today and is 4 away from topping Justin Verlander. Still pitching in the 7th up 4-1. Don’t you think he’d like to pass Verlander?
My favorite Justin Verlander story: At the 2012 BBWAA Awards Dinner, Don Newcombe was in the middle of a memorable and hilarious introduction of Verlander, who was receiving his MVP and Cy Young awards. Verlander turned to me and Mariano Rivera and said, “How am I supposed to https://t.co/Hf10Rx9ahL
That whole process with Justin Verlander, his family, the fans. We’re all so lucky with got to witness his career. https://t.co/QDGkLsyljZ
Umpire favor
+0.5 net runs over 2 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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