{"id":510487,"date":"2026-02-28T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:36:16","slug":"tigers-troy-melton-elbow-expected-to-miss-start-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510487\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers&#8217; Troy Melton (elbow) expected to miss start of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAKELAND, Fla. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> right-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5294127\/troy-melton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Melton<\/a> is not expected to be available for the start of the season due to inflammation in his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told reporters Friday that Melton won&#8217;t throw for one to two weeks. Melton told the Detroit Free Press on Saturday he is &#8220;not too concerned over anything too long-term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Melton, 25, was 3-2 with a 2.76 ERA in 16 games, including four starts, as a rookie in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Melton&#8217;s chances of earning a spot in the rotation took a hit when the Tigers agreed to deals with veteran starting pitchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/6341\/justin-verlander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Verlander<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36581\/framber-valdez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Framber Valdez<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKELAND, Fla. &#8212; Detroit Tigers right-hander Troy Melton is not expected to be available for the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-510487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}