I don't know. Maybe that Price has a slightly lower ERA while Verlander has a slight advantage in strikeouts/9. Price has a lowe walk rate/9 and both have similar HR rates. Verlander's entire advntage in "value" stats is because Comerica is rated as a hitter's park, which I personally think is inaccurate. Comerica used to be an extreme pitcher's park, and now suddenly it's an above average hitter's park? Something is fishy with Comerica's park factors and I'm not going to rate Verlander higher solely because of park factors which have fluctuated wildly.

And I find the arguments for Trout for MVP to be unconvincing (also, the flip side of the park factor argument). Cabrera is my MVP.

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Posted by VerlanderBEAST

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 9:26 am to Baloo

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I don't know. Maybe that Price has a slightly lower ERA while Verlander has a slight advantage in strikeouts/9. Price has a lowe walk rate/9 and both have similar HR rates. Verlander's entire advntage in "value" stats is because Comerica is rated as a hitter's park, which I personally think is inaccurate. Comerica used to be an extreme pitcher's park, and now suddenly it's an above average hitter's park? Something is fishy with Comerica's park factors and I'm not going to rate Verlander higher solely because of park factors which have fluctuated wildly.

Forget park factor's then its still not close. The couple hundreths of a difference in ERA is more than made up for buy the 27 more innings Verlander has pitched. On top of that the Ray's fielding>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tiger's all time shitty fielding.

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