Plus: Is 300 wins in sight for Verlander?
Who was the last pitcher to win his 300th career game while wearing a Mets uniform? |
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| We know the numbers with Justin Verlander by now. Everybody does. He has won three Cy Young Awards -- including last season, 11 years after his first. He has two World Series titles and one Most Valuable Player Award and 3,198 career strikeouts and counting. Now comes another big number for him today:
Verlander turns 40.
He turns 40 with 244 victories in the books already, which means he is 56 wins from one of the game's enduring magic numbers: 300. If he gets there, he might be the last one to do it for a long time, and maybe forever, in baseball.
If he stays healthy, I believe he's going to do it. I believe Verlander, now with the Mets, back with his old Tigers teammate Max Scherzer (who has three Cy Young Awards of his own) is staying strong in his career the way he still can stay strong in his starts, as dominant in the late innings as he is in the early ones. It's why I also believe that his 40th birthday is going to be nothing more than a speed bump, as he now gets the biggest possible stage for his talent in New York with the Mets. |
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