Justin Verlander is Our Performance Player of the Week

ESPN picked Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Justin Verlander for Player of the Week. Senior baseball writer Jayson Stark writes:

”The way Verlander has pitched these last six weeks, I’m not sure why the hitters even bother to get in the box. In his last nine starts, this man has a 1.10 ERA and almost twice as many strikeouts (81) as hits allowed (43). And only twice in those nine starts has the team he’s faced scored more than one run.

Ready? Here’s more: According to Inside Edge, Verlander not only has induced the most swings and misses in the American League this year (182), but he also leads the closest pitcher (Felix Hernandez) by 24. In addition, this man is the only starting pitcher in the big leagues who has hit 100 on the radar gun more than once. (He did it May 30 and then again Wednesday.) And his 122nd and final pitch Wednesday against the White Sox was clocked at 99.6 miles per hour.”

We’ll follow the Tigers’ ace as he continues his dominance at the mound throughout the summer and hopefully into the fall.

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