{"id":108004,"date":"2025-08-30T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108004\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:45:07","slug":"tigers-shut-down-beau-brieske-due-to-elbow-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108004\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Shut Down Beau Brieske Due To Elbow Soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right-hander Beau Brieske<\/a> has been on Triple-A Toledo\u2019s injured list since July 10 due to elbow soreness, and Tigers GM Jeff Greenberg told reporters (including the Detroit News\u2019 Chris McCosky<\/a>) yesterday that the reliever had a setback during a recent bullpen session.\u00a0 As a result, Brieske will be shut down for the next 4-6 weeks, meaning that his 2025 season is all but officially over, barring both a deep Tigers postseason run and a rather improbable activation to a playoff roster.<\/p>\n

The extent of Brieske\u2019s elbow problems aren\u2019t yet known, as Greenberg only said that surgery was \u201cnot yet\u201d an option.\u00a0 Brieske has missed time due to forearm issues in the past but hasn\u2019t undergone a major arm procedure during his career.<\/p>\n

A 27th-round pick for the Tigers in the 2019 draft, Brieske made his MLB debut as a starter in 2022, and was then shifted into a multi-inning relief role in 2023.\u00a0 This usage continued into last season, as Brieske made 12 pseudo-starts as an opener, mostly late in the year.\u00a0 Brieske\u2019s flexibility out of the pen was a key part of the \u201cpitching chaos\u201d strategy that the Tigers used down the stretch to help fuel their late-season surge into a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

Brieske delivered a 3.86 ERA over 184 1\/3 innings and 86 games from 2022-24, with steadily increasing strikeout rates across those three seasons.\u00a0 In 2025, however, Brieske posted only a 6.55 ERA across 22 innings and appearances, as his season was impacted by injuries even before his elbow soreness \u2014 ankle problems hampered Brieske in Spring Training and led to an early-season IL placement.\u00a0 The bottom fell out when Brieske was charged for five runs in just a third of an inning on June 11, and he was optioned to Triple-A the next day.<\/p>\n

Brieske is arbitration-controlled through the 2028 season and is due only a minimal raise on his $1.025MM salary from 2025, though his health status may hinge on whether or not Detroit tenders him a contract.\u00a0 If his elbow heals up without the need for surgery, the Tigers could well bring him back given his modest price tag, and the hope that Brieske will return to his old form with better health in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Beau Brieske has been on Triple-A Toledo\u2019s injured list since July 10 due to elbow soreness, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[61445,49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-108004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-beau-brieske","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}