Justin Verlander is trending due to his recent return to the Detroit Tigers on a one-year, $13 million deal. This development marks a significant moment in his career, as he is rejoining a franchise where he previously achieved considerable success and recognition. As such, the news has captured the attention of baseball fans and sports analysts alike, contributing to a surge in search interest.
Reports, including one from Yahoo Sports, have confirmed the specifics of this deal, which has generated excitement among those who follow Major League Baseball. The substantial contract and the implications of Verlander’s return to a team with which he has a storied past further fuel the curiosity of fans eager to understand how this will impact both his performance and the team’s lineup for the upcoming season.
Additionally, related articles, such as player reviews from sources like McCovey Chronicles, provide more context and analysis on Verlander’s career and potential performance with the Tigers. This analysis supports increased engagement as fans seek to gain insight into his future contributions, thereby amplifying search interest surrounding the topic.
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One Last Ride 😢
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like the movie For Love of the Game
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He’s pitching against time. He’s pitching against the future, against age, and even when you think about his career, against ending. And tonight, I think he might be able to use that aching old arm one more time to push the sun back up in the sky and give us one more day of summer.
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That was a well written speech in the movie. And Vin nailed the delivery.
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I’m now reading it in Vin Diesel’s voice
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lol
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I don’t got teammates, I got… family.
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Absolutely impossible to read that w/o hearing it in Vin Scully’s voice and with his signature cadence. Impossible.
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Vin had some great lines, I loved ‘The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a Chapel’
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“There’s twenty-nine thousand people in the ballpark, and a million butterflies.” (9th inning of Koufax’s perfect game, 1965)
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I love that movie because you can’t beat a Costner baseball movie and because, well, Vin Scully.
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It’s a chick flick masquerading as a baseball movie. Baseball is the vessel that moves the love story between Billy Chapel & Jane Aubrey. All of that aside yes it’s a great movie & Scully’s quote is goosebump inducing.
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Excuse me but it also has John C. Reilly as his catcher. Now there’s an actor that was born to look like a catcher.
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> It’s a chick flick masquerading as a baseball movie How can you not be romantic about baseball
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Verlander perfect game confirmed.
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That I just the other day discovered was directed by Sam Raimi
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give this man a lifetime contract already! him in the Tigers uniform is just RIGHT, dammit.
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Maybe the ride ends up longer than a one year
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wants to retire a tiger id assume
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It’s more than retiring in the right place imo. He had a 2.99 ERA and almost a strikeout per inning after the all star break. And Detroit has a real shot coming off of last season.
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Now I want to see Verlander vs Scherzer in the ALCS, provided Scherzer sticks around in Toronto
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Scherzer has to go to Arizona
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It was looking really bad for him at the start of the year, but he really turned it around. Hope he balls out in Detroit for his last year (presumably).
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Honestly, God for him. Love me some JV, but its always nice when players do this.
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Gets $13M, chance to be part of a great rotation, happy for him.
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He deserves it. Right place to retire. I figure he goes into the hall with a “D” on his cap.
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This move makes it seem like he wants to have the D on his cap. If you went back 9 years and said he might go into the hall without a tigers cap, you’d sound crazy. But 2 WS and 2 CYA later, you could definitely make the argument.
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Yeah honestly should have a SF on that hat
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No way he goes in without a blue and orange team logo. Mets for sure.
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That would confuse people. They would think he was on the NY Giants
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When a player leaves a team and wins the best pitcher award the next season, they really should call it the “CYA later”
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Can you imagine if a future HOF player signed a contract to retire as a member of a team he’d previously spent most of his career with and then didn’t go in to the HOF with their logo on his hat? That’d be crazy. Surely that’d never happen. Yes I’m still bitter
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Hell $11M was deferred so it was a VERY club friendly deal. Both the Tigers & JV are looking to seriously lockdown one of the better rotations in the AL.
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Sad to see him go but I love that for him. We failed to give him run support even after he provided many many quality starts. Good luck Verlander!
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I am going to fucking cry, man.
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honestly this stuff is what makes baseball beautiful. couldn’t have written a better finale for his career than this. (i still hope against all hope that he can get to 300 though!)
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I’ll miss him, he’s still got it. Would be fun to see him be that second half guy from this year the whole year for the Tigers and make a run. So that a young stud Giants corner infielder could homer three times off him in a WS game. That would be a proper send-off I think.
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Eat my fuckin shorts, dude ❤️
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I was there for Panda’s 3 bombs in the WS game, unbelievable night. I also got to see him pitch in a Giants jersey too which was bucket list since I respect him a ton. It was a fun year but him going back to the Tigers is a good final chapter. Get that 300!
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Tearing up in the office 😭
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I literally fell to my knees in a Culvers
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I just saw someone fall to their knees in the middle of a Culver’s!
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I just looked out the window of a Meijers and saw sometime fall to their knees in a Culvers
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Pick up a Hot n Ready and crack a Faygo, he’s back!
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This is the most Midwestern thing I’ve read today. (Complimentary)
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WHAT A DAY!!!
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WHAT A LOVELY DAY!!! (Didn’t know my dad had a Reddit account. Tigers/Cardinals fan)
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Hope you’re doing well, son. How’d your dad become a Tigers/Cardinals fan?
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Lived in Detroit as a kid to St. Louis as an adult. Note: He rooted for the Tigers in 2006.
Additional Sources:
McCovey Chronicles – Player review: Justin Verlander
Yahoo Sports – Justin Verlander returning to Tigers on 1-year, $13 million deal
