{"id":653478,"date":"2026-03-31T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:00:19","slug":"lineups-backing-justin-verlander-in-key-starts-turns-into-tigers-time-warp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653478\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineups Backing Justin Verlander in Key Starts Turns into Tigers Time Warp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/tigers\/onsi\/news\/tigers-kerry-carpenter-strong-belief-outlook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Verlander<\/a> is aware of the craziness of what happening when he starts for the Detroit Tigers on Monday in Arizona. <\/p>\n<p>How does one know? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/tigers\/onsi\/news\/tigers-justin-verlander-regret-return-detroit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verlander<\/a> changed the photo on his X (formerly Twitter) bio page to the photo he took on 2005 Detroit Tigers media day. At that time, he was the Tigers\u2019 first-round pick the previous year out of Old Dominion. He made his MLB debut later that year. <\/p>\n<p>He last pitched for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/tigers\/onsi\/news\/justin-verlander-joins-elite-group-detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tigers<\/a> in 2017 before he was dealt to the Houston Astros at the deadline. He helped Houston win two World Series titles, underwent one Tommy John surgery and won two more American League Cy Young awards. He signed with the New York Mets, was traded back to Houston and landed with San Francisco last year. <\/p>\n<p>Now, 3,134 days later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/tigers\/onsi\/news\/tigers-legend-justin-verlander-knows-one-thing-he-won-t-miss-in-retirement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verlander<\/a> will toe the rubber again for the Tigers when they face the Arizona Diamondbacks. <\/p>\n<p>Wanna take a time back in time? Let\u2019s compare three lineups \u2014 tonight\u2019s behind the 43-year-old Verlander, the one from his final game in Detroit in 2017 and then \u2014 gulp \u2014 the lineup behind him in his MLB debut.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s Lineup vs. Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever Justin Verlander is aware of the craziness of what happening when he starts for the Detroit Tigers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-653478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116320850826681241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}