{"id":899416,"date":"2026-04-15T14:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/tigers-place-justin-verlander-on-15-day-injured-list\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:17:55","slug":"tigers-place-justin-verlander-on-15-day-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/tigers-place-justin-verlander-on-15-day-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Place Justin Verlander On 15-Day Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5:10PM<\/strong>: Verlander and manager A.J. Hinch told the Detroit News\u2019 Chris McCosky<\/a> and other reporters that the injury is fairly minor, and the IL placement is precautionary in nature.\u00a0 The Tigers don\u2019t have another off-day until April 13, leaving Verlander without the benefit of any extra rest in between starts to fully get over his hip problem.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s just difficult because I feel like it\u2019s close to being able to just work through it<\/em>,\u201d Verlander said.\u00a0 \u201cBut the timing is bad, the weather is bad and the schedule is bad.\u00a0 Everything worked against it, unfortunately<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

12:09PM<\/strong>: The Tigers announced that Justin Verlander<\/a><\/strong> has been placed on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to April 1) due to inflammation in his left hip.\u00a0 Right-hander Keider Montero<\/a><\/strong> was called up from Triple-A Toledo to take Verlander\u2019s spot on the 26-man roster.<\/p>\n

The IL stint adds to a tough first week in Verlander\u2019s return to Detroit.\u00a0 The right-hander\u2019s first start of the season saw Verlander last just 3 2\/3 innings on Monday, and he gave up six hits and two homers to the Diamondbacks en route to being charged with five earned runs.\u00a0 Verlander was slated to start against the Cardinals on Sunday, which would\u2019ve marked his first home appearance in a Tigers uniform since August 2017.<\/p>\n

While there isn\u2019t yet any indication that the hip problem is particularly serious, it does add to the lengthy list of injuries that have piled up for Verlander in recent years, which isn\u2019t surprising given how the righty is now in his age-43 season.\u00a0 After missing almost all of the 2020-21 seasons due to Tommy John surgery, Verlander has been placed on the IL five times in the last four seasons.\u00a0 He missed about five weeks in 2023 due to a teres major strain and a month of the 2025 season due to pectoral soreness, and the 2024 campaign saw Verlander limited to 90 1\/3 innings because of shoulder inflammation and then a lingering neck injury.<\/p>\n

Verlander has still logged 579 2\/3 innings from 2022-25 \u2014 a very respectable total for any pitcher, let alone a hurler of Verlander\u2019s age.\u00a0 After winning the AL Cy Young Award in 2022, Verlander\u2019s only truly rough year was his injury-plagued 2024 season, as he still posted a 3.85 ERA, 20.7% strikeout rate, and 7.9% walk rate over 152 innings for the Giants last year.<\/p>\n

It was enough for Detroit to sign Verlander to a one-year, $13MM free agent contract in February, in a move that made sense for both nostalgic and practical reasons.\u00a0 Reese Olson<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s shoulder surgery ended his 2026 season before it even began, opening the door for Verlander to slot into the back end of the Tigers\u2019 rotation.<\/p>\n

Montero will now fill that role for the time being, and the righty has been a serviceable swingman over his two MLB seasons, delivering a 4.57 ERA over 189 innings.\u00a0 Montero has performed better as a starter (4.05 ERA in 144 1\/3 IP) than as a reliever (6.25 ERA in 44 2\/3 IP), and replicating that kind of rotation performance would be a great help for the Tigers in holding the fort until Verlander is back.<\/p>\n

While the Tigers have a solid amount of rotation depth, that depth has already been tested between Olson\u2019s surgery, Troy Melton<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s season-opening stint on the 60-day IL, Sawyer Gipson-Long<\/a><\/strong> is on the 15-day IL with an oblique strain, and now Verlander\u2019s absence.\u00a0 Melton and Jackson Jobe<\/a><\/strong> (who had a Tommy John surgery last June) are expected back before season\u2019s end, and perhaps most importantly, the top four in Detroit\u2019s rotation \u2014 Tarik Skubal<\/a><\/strong>, Framber Valdez<\/a><\/strong>, Casey Mize<\/a><\/strong>, and Jack Flaherty<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 are all still healthy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Jeanice Byron
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5:10PM: Verlander and manager A.J. Hinch told the Detroit News\u2019 Chris McCosky and other reporters that the injury is fairly minor, and the IL placement is precautionary in nature.\u00a0 The Tigers don\u2019t have another off-day until April 13, leaving Verlander without the benefit of any extra rest in between starts to fully get over his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":899417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,26604],"tags":[7834,6984],"class_list":{"0":"post-899416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-place","8":"category-tigers","9":"tag-place","10":"tag-tigers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}