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Baseball Today: Friday, May 9
Published 5/9/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... UNHAPPY NEW YEAR: With last night's loss, Tigers starter Jason Verlander now has as many defeats -- six -- as he did all last year. (Detroit Free Press) And Miguel Cabrera, off to a slow start with the struggling Tigers, admits ...

SlumpBot .200: Verlander lets the ball slip away from him
Published 5/13/2008 at Big League Stew
... Diagnosis: Verlander insists that physically, he is fine. The tall right-hander believes that his mechanics need to be fixed. "I know what I need to work on. My front side is flying (open). When that happens, everything kind of flattens out on me. I've had a tendency to do that my whole career." (Free Press) ...

Justin Verlander and you
Published 5/16/2008 at Roto Arcade
... This, I'm afraid, is what a buy-low candidate looks like. You obviously can't get anyone at a discount when they're performing at their best. Verlander has been fairly candid in discussing what he believes to be an issue with his mechanics: ...

Roto Chronicles: American League – May 19
Published 5/19/2008 by Michael Taylor at Seamheads.com
... Buy – Justin Verlander, SP – DET The value for Verlander is about as low as you could get right now. His record stands at 1-7 and his ERA 6.05 after nine starts. His velocity in his last game against Kansas City was still 93-96 MPH, around what was expected of him, and he seems to know what he has to fix. He says that “his front side is flying open.” That was said before his last start against the Royals, which was his best start of the year. He went six innings allowing two runs on six hits. Though, it was still not good enough for a ...