Como el buen vino, velocidad y control | Análisis-Opinión | Like good wine, speed and control | Analysis-Opinion | ESP-ENG
When a player begins his professional career, in most cases his talent is in full development, he goes through different academies and through the different organized baseball programs to later be selected by the different coaches of the different teams in the major leagues. where they are in charge of discovering that talent that is just being born, commonly the player goes through that first stage, his talent is discovered and it is where he is in full condition, the hitters show their skills with the bat and the pitchers show their talent With his arm, this means that at first his talent is like a rough diamond, then he reaches maturity at an age between 25 and 30 years old and then passes to a stage where the player is already consecrated; 32 and 35 years old, and after that, reaching the part of being a veteran until retirement, after his attributes decrease due to his advanced age, this usually happens at 38 or 40 years old, but there are players who age makes them stronger or it just doesn't seem to affect them and they maintain those physical characteristics that led him at some point to sign with a professional team, one of them is Justin Verlander.
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VELOCIDAD Y CONTROL / SPEED AND CONTROL
POR MUCHOS AÑOS / FOR MANY YEARS
Since Justin Verlander was discovered there in the mid-2000s, he always showed great attributes, his great training season was the 2006 season with the Detroit Tigers team, it was the starting point full time, since then He showed what he was made of and with his performances he was already beginning to say that he would be in the future, an excellent starting pitcher whose characteristics were and are those of a superstar on the mound, control and speed in his arm that led him to start 30 games that season to throw as a result on the field of 19 wins and 9 losses with a 3.63 ERA per 9 innings pitched so that in his first year he rose to win the rookie of the year award, something truly amazing.
I remember that 2006 season, when in a game where his team, the Detroit Tigers faced the New York Yankees, in the old Yankee Stadium, this pitcher reached truly amazing speeds, because we were in the presence of a talent that began to flourish, said speeds reached 99 miles per hour and on more than one occasion exceeded 100 miles, an event that made it clear to the world of baseball that we were witnessing the birth of a pitcher with the characteristics of a Nolan Ryan or a Pedro Martinez for the aggressiveness and strength in his shipments, great comparison, right? Well, time later proved us right, something good was brewing.
FUERZA INCREÍBLE / INCREDIBLE STRENGTH
The photo that we see in this part of this publication is the exact description of Justin Verlander's movements when throwing a ball to the plate, not only does he have the speed in his deliveries, but he also has the strength and ability to make his pitches move and fall in the area he wants, tricking the batters and making them miss and in the best of cases he ends up striking them out, another thing that stands out about him is that as the baseball game progresses, he behaves In a better way, the resistance and strength in his arm is such that it takes him to reach 6, 7 and even 8 innings every time he goes out on the mound, thus showing the ability he has to control a game until he gives victory to his team.
The rotation of his arm and elbow when throwing the balls to home plate is also one of his strengths, since he achieves the precise movements so that his pitches have a better effect and a better finish in the strike zone, the incredible thing about this is that this does not seem to cause him any kind of setbacks, which leads him to have that resistance in the aforementioned games, giving us to understand that he has a rubber arm, all these attributes have as a consequence, the obtaining of several individual prizes in his line of starting pitcher standing out before his other colleagues on the mound of the American League, reminding me a lot in particular of Roger Clemens.
LA RECOMPENSA A SU TRABAJO / THE REWARD FOR HIS WORK
All the above exposed leads him to win two battles from the mound, after his first great achievement as winner of the rookie of the year award, he achieves what every pitcher wants, and that is that with those attributes he wins a pair of Cy Young awards and a triple pitching crown, something that only 2 pitchers have achieved, one of them is the Venezuelan Johan Santana and the other of course is Justin Verlander, to become the only ones to achieve them, the success goes further, after sweeping the awards Individuals as far as pitching is concerned, as if that were not enough, in 2011 he won the award for the most valuable player in the American League, an award that is commonly given to a position player, but in that season he made the merits to deserve it, and that is that with his 24 wins and only 5 losses, with a pinpoint ERA of 2.40 in 34 starts to also complete the route in 4 games took him to his highest point in his career.
His call to the star games, or mid-season classic representing the American League is a reflection that what he has done on the pitch is recognized by everyone, in this case by his fans, the 8 times he has been able to attend They show their superstar status both on and off the field of play, marking an era within pitching at a time when hitting is very dominant and more so with technological in which the hitters study the pitchers very well. In 2017 and already with another team, the Houston Astros crown, in my opinion, his professional career by reaching the World Series title, an achievement that is very elusive for many players and he in 2 attempts with his original team the Detroit Tigers could not achieve them.
CONCLUSIÓN / CONCLUSION
This pitcher from Virginia after a long journey for almost 2 decades in the best baseball in the world, only shows us 2 things, consistency and a lot of discipline to achieve everything he has achieved so far, everything has not been rosy, either He has had his injuries like the ones he had in 2015, 2020 and 2021 to return in 2022, the current season and record truly valuable numbers in his 17 seasons as a professional player; In 14 majestic starts he has a record of 9 and 3 to lead him to have a millimeter effectiveness even much better than in his start of 2.22 for at 39 years of age to be like good wine that the older it tastes better.
HASTA LA PRÓXIMA / UNTIL NEXT TIME
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