Justin Verlander has simply made it look easy since coming back to the majors after missing nearly all of the last two seasons.
As of July 1st, Verlander leads the majors with 10 wins (10-3), while posting a 2.03 ERA, 90 strikeouts & 17 walks through 97.1 innings of work. If he keeps his 2022 ERA+ clip of 186, it will have the makings of topping his prior two best seasons of 2011 & 2019, both in which he won the Cy Young Award (not to mention MVP Award in 11'). For those that don't understand ERA+, 100 is the league average, and he would be 86+ of that.
In fact, since becoming part of the Houston Astros in late 2017, Verlander has posted a 53-18 record, 2.38 ERA & 736 strikeouts in 574.1 innings, with a 179 ERA+ & 18.1 WAR.
This past week, he owned both New York teams, lineups that included the talent of Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Rizzo, Starling Marte & others.
Here are the superb numbers against both the Yankees & Mets, presented by USA Today baseball writer Bob Nightengale in this tweet below...
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