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Justin Verlander

Age: 43
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #35

Born: February 20, 1983 in Manakin-Sabot, VA, United States
MLB debut: July 4, 2005
Drafted: 2004, round 1
College: Old Dominion
High school: Goochland
Salary, 2026: $7.86M

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dbWAR: 72.4
IP: 9.0
ERA: 7.00
FIP: 6.88
K/9: 7.0
FIP−: 165

Justin Verlander is a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he struck out 7 batters over 9.0 innings across 2 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 7.00 was 67.4% higher than the league average of 4.18. Stripping out defence, his 6.88 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 18.6% of swings (9.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.9%. His -0.2 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026 regular season.

FIP6.88

K/97.0

WHIP1.56

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	DET	2	2	9.0	0	1	11	7	7	3	7.00	6.88	1.56	7.0	3.0	167	165	-0.2
2025	SF	29	29	152.0	4	11	155	65	137	52	3.85	3.85	1.36	8.1	3.1	93	92	2.4
2024	HOU	17	17	90.1	5	6	98	55	74	27	5.48	4.78	1.38	7.4	2.7	134	117	0.4
2023	NYM/HOU	27	27	162.1	13	8	139	58	144	45	3.22	3.85	1.13	8.0	2.5	74	89	2.8
2022	HOU	28	28	175.0	18	4	116	34	185	29	1.75	2.49	0.83	9.5	1.5	44	63	5.2
2020	HOU	1	1	6.0	1	0	3	2	7	1	3.00	5.69	0.67	10.5	1.5	67	128	-0.0
2019	HOU	34	34	223.0	21	6	137	64	300	42	2.58	3.27	0.80	12.1	1.7	57	73	5.9
2018	HOU	34	34	214.0	16	9	156	60	290	37	2.52	2.78	0.90	12.2	1.6	61	67	6.0
2017	DET/HOU	33	33	206.0	15	8	170	77	219	72	3.36	3.84	1.17	9.6	3.1	77	88	3.9
2016	DET	34	34	227.2	16	9	171	77	254	57	3.04	3.48	1.00	10.0	2.3	73	83	4.6
2015	DET	20	20	133.1	5	8	113	50	113	32	3.37	3.49	1.09	7.6	2.2	85	88	2.2
2014	DET	32	32	206.0	15	12	223	104	159	65	4.54	3.74	1.40	6.9	2.8	121	100	2.4
2013	DET	34	34	218.1	13	12	212	84	217	75	3.46	3.28	1.31	8.9	3.1	90	85	4.3
2012	DET	33	33	238.1	17	8	192	70	239	60	2.64	2.94	1.06	9.0	2.3	66	73	5.9
2011	DET	34	34	251.0	24	5	174	67	250	57	2.40	2.99	0.92	9.0	2.0	61	76	5.8
2010	DET	33	33	224.1	18	9	190	84	219	71	3.37	2.97	1.16	8.8	2.8	83	73	5.5
2009	DET	35	35	240.0	19	9	219	92	269	63	3.45	2.80	1.18	10.1	2.4	80	65	7.0
2008	DET	33	33	201.0	11	17	195	108	163	87	4.84	4.18	1.40	7.3	3.9	112	97	2.8
2007	DET	32	32	201.2	18	6	181	82	183	67	3.66	3.99	1.23	8.2	3.0	82	89	3.5
2006	DET	30	30	186.0	17	9	187	75	124	60	3.63	4.35	1.33	6.0	2.9	80	96	2.5
2005	DET	2	2	11.1	0	2	15	9	7	5	7.15	4.52	1.76	5.6	4.0	167	105	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2019	HOU	1	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.6	-116	-0.1
2018	HOU	2	5	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.000	.333	0.0%	40.0%	.176	-0.6	1	0.0
2017	DET	2	6	1	1	4	.167	.167	.167	.000	.500	0.0%	66.7%	.146	-0.9	-21	-0.0
2016	DET	2	5	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.000	.333	0.0%	40.0%	.175	-0.6	1	0.0
2014	DET	3	7	2	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.000	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.299	-0.1	90	0.1
2013	DET	1	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-117	-0.0
2012	DET	3	8	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	12.5%	.000	-2.0	-117	-0.1
2011	DET	1	4	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-118	-0.1
2010	DET	2	5	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.3	-126	-0.1
2009	DET	2	4	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.1	-125	-0.1
2008	DET	2	5	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.4	-125	-0.1
2007	DET	2	5	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.4	-126	-0.1
2006	DET	1	2	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.6	-126	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Justin Verlander's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	3	3	18.1	1	1	16	6	3	6	14	2.95	1.20	6.9
		ALDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	4	0	0	3	6	0.00	1.17	9.0
		ALCS	2	2	12.1	0	1	12	6	3	3	8	4.38	1.22	5.8
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	4	20.0	2	0	23	13	3	8	25	5.85	1.55	11.3
		ALDS	1	1	4.0	0	0	10	6	1	1	3	13.50	2.75	6.8
		ALCS	1	1	6.0	1	0	3	1	1	1	11	1.50	0.67	16.5
		World Series	2	2	10.0	1	0	10	6	1	6	11	5.40	1.60	9.9
2019 Post	HOU	Postseason total	6	6	35.1	1	4	30	17	8	14	38	4.33	1.25	9.7
		ALDS	2	2	10.2	1	1	8	4	2	6	13	3.38	1.31	11.0
		ALCS	2	2	13.2	0	1	10	6	3	2	16	3.95	0.88	10.5
		World Series	2	2	11.0	0	2	12	7	3	6	9	5.73	1.64	7.4
2018 Post	HOU	Postseason total	3	3	17.1	2	1	11	8	2	8	17	4.15	1.10	8.8
		ALDS	1	1	5.1	1	0	2	2	0	2	7	3.38	0.75	11.8
		ALCS	2	2	12.0	1	1	9	6	2	6	10	4.50	1.25	7.5
2017 Post	HOU	Postseason total	6	5	36.2	4	1	22	9	3	8	38	2.21	0.82	9.3
		ALDS	2	1	8.2	2	0	7	3	1	4	3	3.12	1.27	3.1
		ALCS	2	2	16.0	2	0	10	1	0	2	21	0.56	0.75	11.8
		World Series	2	2	12.0	0	1	5	5	2	2	14	3.75	0.58	10.5
2014 Post	DET	ALDS	1	1	5.0	0	0	6	3	1	1	4	5.40	1.40	7.2
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	3	3	23.0	1	1	10	1	1	3	31	0.39	0.57	12.1
		ALDS	2	2	15.0	1	0	6	0	0	2	21	0.00	0.53	12.6
		ALCS	1	1	8.0	0	1	4	1	1	1	10	1.13	0.63	11.3
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	4	4	28.1	3	1	16	7	4	6	29	2.22	0.78	9.2
		ALDS	2	2	16.0	2	0	7	1	1	5	22	0.56	0.75	12.4
		ALCS	1	1	8.1	1	0	3	1	1	0	3	1.08	0.36	3.2
		World Series	1	1	4.0	0	1	6	5	2	1	4	11.25	1.75	9.0
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	4	4	20.1	2	1	19	12	2	10	25	5.31	1.43	11.1
		ALDS	2	2	9.0	1	0	6	5	0	5	12	5.00	1.22	12.0
		ALCS	2	2	11.1	1	1	13	7	2	5	13	5.56	1.59	10.3
2006 Post	DET	Postseason total	4	4	21.2	1	2	26	14	5	10	23	5.82	1.66	9.6
		ALDS	1	1	5.1	0	0	7	3	1	4	5	5.06	2.06	8.4
		ALCS	1	1	5.1	1	0	7	4	2	1	6	6.75	1.50	10.1
		World Series	2	2	11.0	0	2	12	7	2	5	12	5.73	1.55	9.8
Career		Postseason total · 10 Octobers	38	37	226.0	17	12	179	90	32	74	244	3.58	1.12	9.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Justin Verlander's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	HOU	World Series	2	4	3	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	DET	World Series	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2006 Post	DET	World Series	1	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	4	7	6	4	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	29	26	7	3	3	6	.269	.345	.692	.434	20.7%
vs RHB	10	10	4	0	0	1	.400	.400	.500	.393	10.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Justin Verlander throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	41.5%	71	92.9	2,382	53.5%	13.9%	16	.313	1.040
Slider	25.1%	43	87.2	2,443	51.2%	25.9%	10	—	—
Curveball	17.5%	30	78.9	2,788	36.7%	23.1%	7	—	—
Changeup	14.6%	25	83.4	1,761	40.0%	11.1%	2	—	—

Justin Verlander's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.