Justin Verlander

Justin Brooks Verlander (born February 20, 1983) is an American pitcher who is back with the Detroit Tigers after spells with the Houston Astros, New York Mets and San Francisco Giants. Detroit took him second overall in the 2004 draft and he made his debut in 2005. He threw the first no-hitter at Comerica Park in 2007, and in 2011 he pitched a second no-hitter, won the Pitching Triple Crown and took both the AL Cy Young Award, unanimously, and the AL MVP Award. The Tigers traded him to Houston in 2017, and that autumn he was ALCS MVP as the Astros won the World Series. He has won three Cy Young Awards and two World Series titles in all.