Overview
- Verlander finalized a one-year contract to rejoin Detroit and has begun integrating at Joker Marchant Stadium.
- Manager A. J. Hinch confirmed Tarik Skubal will make his third straight Opening Day start.
- Skubal, a back-to-back AL Cy Young winner with a recent record arbitration award, remains the team’s ace.
- Skubal said he felt “giddy as a kid” about being locker mates with Verlander and gave him a tour of the renovated spring complex.
- Verlander said he looks forward to watching Skubal every five days and to a two-way exchange of pitching insights as the rotation also features Framber Valdez.