{"id":637373,"date":"2026-04-29T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:41:14","slug":"tigers-place-casey-mize-javier-baez-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637373\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Place Casey Mize, Javier B\u00e1ez On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers have placed righty-hander Casey Mize<\/a> and utilityman Javier B\u00e1ez<\/a> on the injured list, per a club announcement. Mize heads to the 15-day IL due to a right adductor strain. B\u00e1ez is going on the 10-day IL due to a sprained right ankle. Lefty Enmanuel De Jesus<\/a> and infielder Jace Jung<\/a> were recalled from Triple-A Toledo in a pair of corresponding moves.<\/p>\n

The loss of Mize is a tough blow for the rotation. He\u2019s out to the best start of his career, having pitched to a 2.90 earned run average with a 27.3% strikeout rate that would easily register as a career-high in a full season. He\u2019s walked 8.6% of his opponents and kept 38.8% of batted balls against him on the ground. Mize\u2019s prior career-highs in opponents\u2019 chase rate and swinging-strike rate were 28.3% and 10.8%, respectively; he\u2019s at 30.8% and 12.1% so far in 2026.<\/p>\n

Mize exited his most recent start in the third inning. He pulled up with an apparent injury while attempting to field a bunt up the first base line. He wound up being charged with two earned runs that game \u2014 just the second time in six starts this season that he\u2019s been charged with multiple earned runs in a start.<\/p>\n

With Mize sidelined for at least two weeks and Justin Verlander<\/a> also on the injured list, the Tigers\u2019 rotation depth is being tested. Tarik Skubal<\/a> and Framber Valdez<\/a> remain a formidable one-two punch atop the staff. Keider Montero<\/a> is also out to a career-best start. Veteran Jack Flaherty<\/a>, conversely, is having one of the worst starts to a season<\/a> in his career. Swingman Drew Anderson<\/a>, who\u2019s stretched out and has gone as long as 3 1\/3 innings this season, is a candidate to step into the vacant spot in the rotation. Detroit could also turn to Triple-A, where righties Sawyer Gipson-Long<\/a> and Ty Madden<\/a> are possibilities.<\/p>\n

B\u00e1ez, meanwhile, had to be carted off the field in yesterday\u2019s game after injuring himself on a slide. He underwent an MRI that revealed the sprain. A timetable for his return isn\u2019t yet clear. He\u2019s been getting frequent run in the infield and in center field, following the Parker Meadows<\/a> injury, and is hitting .256\/.280\/.397 with a pair of homers in 82 plate appearances this year.<\/p>\n

With B\u00e1ez out of the equation for the short term at least, Detroit\u2019s options in center field include Matt Vierling<\/a> and Wenceel Perez<\/a>. Young outfielder Max Clark<\/a>, a former top-five pick and one of the ten top prospects in all of baseball at the moment, looms as an option in Triple-A. He\u2019s slashing .303\/.377\/.444 with a homer, eight steals, an 11.4% walk rate and just a 13.2% strikeout rate in 116 trips to the plate. Clark isn\u2019t on the 40-man roster but seems quite likely to make his big league debut at some point this season. It\u2019s possible that B\u00e1ez\u2019s injury accelerates that timetable, although for now, center field will seemingly be entrusted to more experienced options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers have placed righty-hander Casey Mize and utilityman Javier B\u00e1ez on the injured list, per a club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,64322,75356,462,82],"class_list":["post-637373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-casey-mize","tag-javier-baez","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637373","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=637373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}