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Justin Verlander Married, Wife, Girlfriend, Net worth, Height
There are many pitchers who play in MajorLeague Baseball (MLB), but only a few of them can be grouped in the class of Justin Verlander, whose talent and achievements are so far off the hook. This is not a surprise since he started playing sports as a child. Here is the story of how he became so successful in the sport.
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Born in Manakin-Sabot, Virginia on February 20, 1983, the baseball player is the first of two sons born to Kathy and Richard Verlander. As a child, he had a very close relationship with his father and naturally became a baseball enthusiast as his father was a huge fan of the sport.
According to the story, it was his father who encouraged him to play the sport after seeing Justin throw a rock further than he, his father, could. As a nine-year-old, he joined baseball’s youth level in the Richmond area and was considered the best pitcher in the area. His father also enrolled him in Richmond Baseball Academy, where his throwing speed increased shortly thereafter.
Justin Verlander was a student at Goochland High, continued to play baseball at school, and later moved to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. By the time he finished his collegiate career with Monarch, Justin set a record as the all-time leading strikeout leader on his varsity, Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament and Commonwealth of Virginia Division I teams with 427 in 335 innings. Because of his excellence, he was selected to the 2003 United States National Team, which won a silver medal at that year’s Pan American Games.
After a three-year college baseball career,Justin Verlander joined the professional league when he was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the 2004 MLB Draft. He was selected with second overall and has continued to set new records in the league.
Justin Verlander Net Worth
Justin’s successful career earned him an estimated net worth of $105 million. In addition to his baseball career, the seven-time MLB All-Star also made a part of this enormous sum of endorsement deals with companies such as Under Armour, Breitling, the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline and the sporting goods manufacturer Rawlings.
In 2013, he became the highest-paid pitcher in league history after agreeing to the terms of a seven-year, $180,000,000 contract with the Detroit Tigers. As a result, he earned a base salary of $20,000,000 in 2013 and 2014 and $28,000,000 in 2015-2019.
Is he married? Who is his wife or girlfriend
Justin Verlander is married to Kate Upton, an American supermodel and actress who has appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue four different years. She has also modeled for other prestigious companies such as Beach Bunny Swimwear, Complex, Esquire and appeared as a cover model for Vogue Italia (November 2012), Vogue UK (January 2013), Vogue (June 2013) and Vanity Fair 100- year anniversary to others.
Born Kate Upton on June 10, 1992 in St. Joseph, Michigan, who ranked fifth on Models.com’s 2012 model list, was also featured on the Maxime Hot 100 list in the same year and that of AskMen Top 99 women for 2013. The following year, she was named “Sexiest Woman” by People’s magazine.
The beautiful model began acting in the 2011 film Tower Heist, playing the role of the mistress of Mr. Hightower. She has also acted in other films such as The Three Stooges, The Other Woman and The Stopover.
Kate and Justin met in 2012 but were just friends until early 2014 when they started dating. Speaking to Bleacher Report in August 2018, the baseball player revealed that Kate helped him recover from an injury that left him depressed and upset with the world. According to him, she was someone he could talk to and trust as well, and that was probably one of the reasons he decided to take their relationship to the next level, discovering at that point in his life that she was what he needed.
They got engaged in 2016 after dating for two years and in November 2017 they married in a private ceremony that took place in a medieval church in Tuscany, Italy. The wedding ceremony was attended by close relatives and friends of the couple. In November 2018, Kate and Justin welcomed their first child, named Genevieve Upton Verlander.
Height
The right-handed, dark-brown haired baseball pitcher stands at 6ft 6in and weighs 102kg. He has brown eyes with a body measurement of 116 cm (46 in), 91 cm (36 in) and 38 cm (15 in) biceps.
