Justin Verlander is 33 years and 330 days old.
He’s not that old.
But the Detroit Tigers ace right-hander – a 12-year major league veteran – is old enough in baseball years to know that he doesn’t really want to be part of a rebuilding process.
“Would it have been upsetting for me if we started trading away everybody?” he told MLB Network Radio on Friday morning. “I’m too old to be part of a rebuilding process.
“But they kept saying, wholeheartedly, ‘We’re not doing a rebuild. We’re trying to make smart baseball decisions and if we can’t make those decisions then we’re not going to just blow up the team for the sake of salary.