Justin Brooks Verlander rolls in at number three on this list of greats. Verlander is the only pitcher too make my list of Most Valuable Players. He is not on here though because he is from Detroit. Justin is the league's most elite pitcher and has been for most of his career. He was a home grown and raised Detroit Tiger. He only started two games in his "rookie year". In his second season, his official rookie year, he carried a heavy load of the Detroit Tigers pitching staff starting a tremendous thirty games for a rookie. He performed quite well, winning the Rookie of the Year award. Other than Justin's 2008 season where he lost a hefty 17 games, he has not lost more than 9 games in one season. He has been a 15 game winner five times, and a twenty game winner once. In that year where he won twenty games he won the Most Valuable Player and the Cy Young award (2011). The last pitcher to win the MVP was Dennis Eckersley in 1992. Back to Verlander's outstanding, he led the league in lowest earned run average (2.40), strikeouts (239), and wins (24). Year in and year out J.V. is out on that mound, making 30 plus starts for the Detroit Tigers. He puts his team in a situation to almost every time he is totting the rubber. I am expecting Justin to have a great year this year with the addition of Victor Martinez back in that potent offense they throw at you day after day. Martinez will help with run support for Verlander; I expect this to give Verlander at least three more wins!
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