Justin Verlander’s name has been synonymous with “Legendary Ace” in baseball parlance for more than a decade now, but there have more recently been some questions popping up with regard to his decline phase over his last couple of seasons in Detroit. After a truly egregious snubbing in 2016 by the Baseball Writers of America (Rick Porcello won the Cy Young Award instead of Verlander, which was roughly equivalent to Juan Gonzalez winning the MVP award in the late 90s and prompted a fiery twitter rebuke from one Mrs. Kate Upton) Verlander went back to work in 2017 and disappointed on a bad Tigers team by posting his worst BB/9 mark (3.
Reading Between The Seams: Hall Of Fame Hunger (Part 5 of 6)
