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God damnit, RDD. I offered nearly the same exact analyses a few pages back, you swine!
He's only walking one extra batter per 9. It's not like his walk rate has doubled. Maybe that one walk per is hurting him, but, like you said, k/9 is great, babip is high, walks are a bit. Nothing really wrong, imo.
Although, I find it funny how easy it is for nobodies like all of us to go on baseball reference, look at his numbers, and realise that walking an extra batter every 9 innings and seeing a spike in his babip is really the reason behind Verlander's "off" year, but, on MLB Network, schlub analyst Mitch Williams is busy breaking down three videos of Verlander's delivery that look completely identical, and reaching to show us "why" Verlander was different in each one. Schmucks, some of these guys are.
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