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Baseball 92: Justin Verlander

Baseball 92: Justin Verlander

Oct 13, 2018
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Beginnings always fascinate me. Let's go back, if we can, to one spring day in 2001. Justin Verlander and his father, Richard, sat at their home in Goochland, Va., and waited for the phone to ring. It was amateur draft day. And they expected Justin to go somewhere between the eighth and 12th round -- that's what Baseball America had predicted. They coul…

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