Justin Verlander Houston Astros

Age: 37 (February 20, 1983) | 6' 5" | 225lbs. P-34
Tm Lg YEAR W L SV Hld G GS IP H HR BB SO ERA WHIP Rating BB/9 SO/9 BABIP G/L/F % $4x4 $5x5
DET AL 2005 0 2 0 0 2 2 11.1 15 1 5 7 7.15 1.76 1.68 4.0 5.6 .359 n/a -3
DET AL 2006 17 9 0 0 30 30 186.0 187 21 60 124 3.63 1.33 1.34 2.9 6.0 .293 n/a 20
DET AL 2007 18 6 0 0 32 32 201.2 181 20 67 183 3.66 1.23 1.21 3.0 8.2 .294 n/a 25 23
DET AL 2008 11 17 0 0 33 33 201.0 195 18 87 163 4.84 1.40 1.32 3.9 7.3 .305 n/a 1 6
DET AL 2009 19 9 0 0 35 35 240.0 219 20 63 269 3.45 1.18 1.17 2.4 10.1 .328 n/a 31 30
DET AL 2010 18 9 0 0 33 33 224.0 190 14 71 219 3.38 1.17 1.10 2.9 8.8 .299 n/a 26 25
DET AL 2011 24 5 0 0 34 34 251.0 174 24 57 250 2.40 0.92 0.95 2.0 9.0 .247 40/18/42 52 44
DET AL 2012 17 8 0 0 33 33 238.0 192 19 60 239 2.65 1.06 1.05 2.3 9.0 .286 42/22/36 35 33
DET AL 2013 13 12 0 0 34 34 218.0 212 19 75 217 3.47 1.32 1.28 3.1 9.0 .327 38/23/39 12 17
DET AL 2014 15 12 0 0 32 32 206.0 223 18 65 159 4.54 1.40 1.37 2.8 6.9 .327 40/20/41 -1 5
DET AAA 2015 0 0 0 0 2 2 8.1 10 0 2 12 3.24 1.44 1.32 2.2 13.0 .465 n/a
DET AL 2015 5 8 0 0 20 20 133.0 113 13 32 113 3.38 1.09 1.12 2.2 7.6 .276 35/20/46 11 12
DET AL 2016 16 9 0 0 34 34 227.1 171 30 57 254 3.05 1.00 1.08 2.3 10.1 .267 34/19/48 34 34
DET AL 2017 10 8 0 0 28 28 172.0 153 23 67 176 3.82 1.28 1.28 3.5 9.2 .296 34/24/42 11 14
HOU AL 2017 5 0 0 0 5 5 34.0 17 4 5 43 1.06 0.65 0.75 1.3 11.4 .197 32/20/48 14 11
HOU AL 2018 16 9 0 0 34 34 214.0 156 28 37 290 2.52 0.90 1.01 1.6 12.2 .290 29/20/51 42 40
HOU AL 2019 21 6 0 0 34 34 223.0 137 36 42 300 2.58 0.80 0.95 1.7 12.1 .235 36/19/45 55 49
Career 15yrs 225 129 0 0 453 453 2980.1 2535 308 850 3006 3.33 1.14 1.15 2.6 9.1 .292 n/a

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The final 2014 bid limits that were posted for this player:
PK 5x5: $30 MF 5x5: $29 AP 4x4: $29
Alex Patton Alex
Dec 15 '14

I'm afraid it is in 4x4. The breakdown:

$W = 13

$ERA = -8

$WHIP = -7

In decimals: -1.15

In 5x5, the qualitatives still weigh heavily, but the strikeouts move him into the black.

No one has a problem with the notion that mediocre starting pitchers earn more in 5x5 than they do in 4x4. Lots of people, however, have a hard time accepting that the best starting pitchers, even the K artists, earn less in 5x5 than they do in 4x4.

But if you buy that Verlander earned more in 5x5 last year than he did in 4x4, you have to buy that he earned less in 2012, because the money has to come from somewhere.

Alex Patton Alex
Nov 29 '14
-$1?  With 15 wins?  Is that possible?
Mike Landau ML-
Nov 29 '14
Seven of the 77 pitches he threw for strikes yesterday were swung at and missed. But he didn't pitch badly -- only two earned runs and six baserunners in seven innings -- and he even managed to get five strikeouts. The problem was that two of the baserunners didn't stop running until they touched home.
Alex Patton Alex
Aug 7 '14
Possibly still feeling the effects from that core surgery in the offseason.
van wilhoite LVW
Jul 18 '14
Agreed ... and it's not just velocity down. It's velocity WAY down. He's on the Tim Lincecum career path.
Phil Ponebshek Texpope
Jul 18 '14
Velocity down. K Rate way down. HR rate up. Walk rate up. He's a different pitcher. Something is wrong.
Eugene Freedman EugeneFreed
Jul 18 '14
First half snapshot: 129 IP, 4.88 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 6.7 K/9, 2.1 K/W, .327 BAPIP

Any glimmers of hope for Verlander in the second half?
Shawn Douglas ShawnD
Jul 18 '14
He had his fastball back in October and then had surgery to correct "core weakness."
Alex Patton Alex
Mar 17 '14
Interesting Rotoman, very interesting.
Adam Holgate Hoagie
Mar 17 '14