Justin Verlander

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 235 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1983 · Manakin Sabot, VA, USA

MLB debutJuly 4, 2005

Seasons20 (2005–2025)

Detroit Tigers 2005–2017; Houston Astros 2017–2020; Houston Astros 2022–2023; New York Mets 2023; Houston Astros 2024; San Francisco Giants 2025

Percentile snapshot

2023 season — qualified pitchers

2.3

60.5

55.8

SHO

139

90.7

76.7

144

83.7

162.3

2.3

ERA

3.22

81.4

WHIP

1.133

69.8

K/9

7.98

20.9

FIP

3.85

44.2

FIP-

91.6

41.9

ERA+

130.6

79.1

sWAR

3.4

60.5

of 44 qualified 2023 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

127.7

95.6

sWAR

72.5

99.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2006	30	2	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.4	-100.0	.000	3.8
2007	32	5	4	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.5	-100.0	.000	4.0
2008	33	5	5	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.7	-100.0	.000	1.1
2009	35	4	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.6	-100.0	.000	5.2
2010	33	5	4	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.7	-100.0	.000	4.3
2011	34	4	4	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.4	-100.0	.000	7.4
2012	33	8	4	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.3	-100.0	.000	6.7
2013	34	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.2	-100.0	.000	3.8
2014	32	7	6	1	2	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	88.5	90.3	.301	0.4
2015	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2016	34	5	5	1	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	-3.5	8.9	.176	5.4
2017	33	6	6	0	1	1	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	-23.2	-10.4	.146	4.4
2018	34	5	5	0	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	2.1	11.8	.176	6.2
2019	34	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.6	-100.0	.000	6.9
2020	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2022	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6.1
2023	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.4
2024	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
2025	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	2	2	0	2	0	0	15	9	5	7	1	11.3	7.15	1.765	5.56	4.55	106.2	60.0	-0.2
2006	30	30	17	9	1	1	187	75	60	124	21	186.0	3.63	1.328	6.00	4.39	96.1	125.8	3.8
2007	32	32	18	6	1	1	181	82	67	183	20	201.7	3.66	1.230	8.17	4.06	88.9	125.0	4.0
2008	33	33	11	17	1	0	195	108	87	163	18	201.0	4.84	1.403	7.30	4.21	95.2	91.5	1.1
2009	35	35	19	9	3	1	219	92	63	269	20	240.0	3.45	1.175	10.09	2.85	63.2	130.6	5.2
2010	33	33	18	9	4	0	190	84	71	219	14	224.3	3.37	1.163	8.79	2.94	70.5	123.5	4.3
2011	34	34	24	5	4	2	174	67	57	250	24	251.0	2.40	.920	8.96	3.03	73.4	171.8	7.4
2012	33	33	17	8	6	1	192	70	60	239	19	238.3	2.64	1.057	9.03	2.90	68.8	159.1	6.7
2013	34	34	13	12	0	0	212	84	75	217	19	218.3	3.46	1.315	8.95	3.30	80.8	118.1	3.8
2014	32	32	15	12	0	0	223	104	65	159	18	206.0	4.54	1.398	6.95	3.77	98.5	84.3	0.4
2015	20	20	5	8	1	1	113	50	32	113	13	133.3	3.38	1.088	7.63	3.46	87.4	117.5	2.3
2016	34	34	16	9	2	0	171	77	57	254	30	227.7	3.04	1.001	10.04	3.44	81.2	139.3	5.4
2017	33	33	15	8	0	0	170	77	72	219	27	206.0	3.36	1.175	9.57	3.83	87.1	130.3	4.4
2018	34	34	16	9	1	1	156	60	37	290	28	214.0	2.52	.902	12.20	2.82	67.3	166.1	6.2
2019	34	34	21	6	2	1	137	64	42	300	36	223.0	2.58	.803	12.11	3.31	72.1	177.7	6.9
2020	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	7	2	6.0	3.00	.667	10.50	5.67	128.7	146.8	0.2
2022	28	28	18	4	0	0	116	34	29	185	12	175.0	1.75	.829	9.51	2.43	63.1	220.2	6.1
2023	27	27	13	8	0	0	139	58	45	144	18	162.3	3.22	1.133	7.98	3.85	91.6	130.6	3.4
2024	17	17	5	6	0	0	98	55	27	74	15	90.3	5.48	1.384	7.37	4.71	117.1	73.4	-0.7
2025	29	29	4	11	0	0	155	65	52	137	16	152.0	3.85	1.362	8.11	3.93	95.5	107.0	2.0
2026	1	1	0	1	0	0	6	5	2	1	1	3.7	12.27	2.182	2.45	—	—	—	—

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

Batting

555

RBI

.1000

OBP

.1000

SLG

.1000

OPS

.2000

Pitching

G (P)

555

328th-most career G (P)

555

29th-most career GS

266

37th-most career W

158

130th-most career L

SHO

3,568

66th-most career IP

SO (P)

3,553

8th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,004

114th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.322

326th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1352

55th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.96

37th-highest career K/9

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	RBI	TB
2014-04-12	DET @ SD Gameday	3	1	2	0	2
2017-08-30	DET @ COL Gameday	3	0	1	1	1
2016-04-05	DET @ MIA Gameday	3	1	1	0	1
2018-05-06	HOU @ AZ Gameday	2	0	1	0	1
2006-06-17	DET @ CHC Gameday	1	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2019-06-12	MIL @ HOU Gameday	7.0	4	3	3	0	15	3
2019-09-01	HOU @ TOR Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	1	14	0
2011-06-25	AZ @ DET Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	1	14	0
2012-08-06	NYY @ DET Gameday	8.0	9	2	0	1	14	0
2018-05-01	NYY @ HOU Gameday	8.0	3	0	0	0	14	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

3× Cy Young Award1× Rookie of the Year1× Most Valuable Player1× Pitching Triple Crown1× ALCS MVP9× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.