Justin Verlander News Archives

Editor's note: Our reporting team will have periodic updates from Minneapolis leading up to the Tigers-Twins one-game playoff at 5 p.m. today.

Add the Tigers to the meeting list for Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman as he talks with Major League teams.

Horrible calls all over the place. You agree? Personally, I think Major League Baseball should get rid of home plate umpires, too, or at least take away the balls and strikes part of their job.

For me, it's the most intriguing two-part question of the current baseball season.

Veteran left-hander Kenny Rogers has agreed a one-year contract with the Detroit Tigers, the team said on Friday.

Ita s time to wrap up our early 2010 rankings with the starting pitchers. A Therea s an extremely fine line between many of these pitchers, so look for things to really move around as we get closer and closer to draft day.

When it came to pitch counts, Justin Verlander performed a Ruthian feat this season.

Ernie Harwell has observed that what transfixes most baseball fans is power: home runs by hitters, strikeouts by pitchers.

Fans trying to digest the Tigers' indigestible finish to their 2009 season seem to focus on manager Jim Leyland's starting pitching choice in the Oct.

Elite. Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander finally earned the adulation with a remarkable 2009 campaign.

When the Yankees finished working out, they retired to their lavish quarters to regard, from a distance, the rabble scuffling for the right to be pummelled in the upcoming days of playoff baseball.

Detroit What went right and wrong for Detroit during a 162-game season that will stretch at least into Tuesday night's playoff game at Minnesota: Right: Justin Verlander, Edwin Jackson and Rick Porcello.

It has slipped away, or been squandered away, but it's not gone yet. A Tigers season that has swung madly from exciting to exasperating, with occasional stops at inexplicable, will be defined tonight, one way or another.

Detroit One of Jim Leyland's surprises in spring training before the 2006 season was how rapidly young, or lower-profile, players caught the new manager's eye.

The Detroit Tigers ended their 2009 season with a devastating extra innings loss to the Minnesota Twins.A Some writers are dubbing the collapse the worst in baseball history, but leta TMs reflect on the past season.

Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera finished in the top 10 in the American League in the Triple Crown categories, leading the club with a .323 average, 33 home runs and 101 RBIs.

When it comes to saying whom the Yankees should be rooting for tonight when the Tigers and Twins play for the right to face the Bombers in the ALDS, scouts are split.

I hope the Detroit Tigers win tonight, but I'll be OK with it if they don't, because they've already given me the only thing I ask at the beginning of the season: They've been interesting.

The Yankees are interested in the outcome of tomorrow night's Tigers-Twins playoff game.

Detroit -- This just in? Not exactly. Justin Verlander obviously has taken major steps this season toward establishing himself as one of baseball's premier pitchers.

Tigers manager Jim Leyland has used 12 different starting pitchers this season to get to the brink of the postseason.

One game remains in the 2009 regular season, and the White Sox find themselves in the thick of the playoff picture.

When you put up an ERA that looks like a misprint and make big-league hitters slam their helmets in frustration, people are going to talk.

The seven-game lead that shrunk all the way to one is now back up to three -- with only four games left.

The Minnesota Twins reacted with a mix of anger and amusement to an Internet video that suggests catcher and MVP candidate Joe Mauer was stealing signs from second base in Tuesday's game against Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers .