I remember early on in his first season in 2006 that Verlander seem to just get the ball and throw it quickly. Granted, I noticed this when I was in a bar in Montana, watching it on a screen from a distance and I didn’t have many chances to see games then on TV, but he didn’t seem to evince a particularly contemplative pose between pitches. This changed later into the season when I caught another few televised games, but early on when he was green he just seemed to have no compunctions about getting the ball and throwing it. Maybe it was just my small sample size of viewing possibilities at the time.