{"id":471336,"date":"2026-02-10T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471336\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:38:08","slug":"tigers-sign-veteran-justin-verlander-to-1-year-13m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471336\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers sign veteran Justin Verlander to 1-year, $13M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander<\/a> is returning to the team with which he started his career, signing a one-year, $13 million contract with the Detroit Tigers<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Verlander, who turns 43 on Feb. 20, spent his first 13 seasons with the Tigers.<\/p>\n

He is considered perhaps the best pitcher of his generation, with the most innings pitched, strikeouts and wins among active players.<\/p>\n

Verlander’s 266 victories are tied with Bob Feller and Eppa Rixey for 34th on baseball’s career list, while his 3,553 career strikeouts are eighth and closely trailing Don Sutton with 3,574.<\/p>\n

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He now joins a Tigers rotation that boasts two-time defending American League Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal<\/a> and free agent acquisition<\/a> Framber Valdez<\/a>, who was a teammate of Verlander’s with the Houston Astros<\/a> during the 2017-18 seasons.<\/p>\n

The nine-time All-Star said he wanted to return for a 21st major league season after experiencing a wild swing of highs and lows with the San Francisco Giants<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n

The right-hander signed a $15 million, one-year contract in January, went a team-record 16 starts before registering a win and then wrapped it up with career start No. 555, which ranks 27th all-time.<\/p>\n

Verlander was 0-8 through his first 16 starts, but he gave up only nine earned runs over 41\u2153 innings (1.96 ERA) in his last seven. Overall, he went 4-11 with a 3.85 ERA with 137 strikeouts in 152 innings pitched.<\/p>\n

After a dominant 13-year stretch with the Tigers, Verlander found a second life after joining the Astros in 2017. He won Cy Youngs in 2019 and 2022 — and after the latter signed a two-year, $86.6 million contract with the New York Mets<\/a>. Verlander spent 16 starts with the Mets before being traded back to the Astros in August 2023.<\/p>\n

Over his career, Verlander is 266-158 with a 3.32 ERA over 3,567\u2154 innings. He has struck out 3,553 batters, walked 1,004 and won a pair of World Series with the Astros.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Jeff Passan and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander is returning to the team with which he started his career,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-471336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}