{"id":730117,"date":"2026-06-11T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730117\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:36:09","slug":"detroit-tigers-ace-tarik-skubal-elbow-set-to-return-saturday-against-cleveland-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730117\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal (elbow) set to return Saturday against Cleveland Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ace is back.<\/p>\n

Detroit Tigers<\/a> manager A.J. Hinch announced Thursday that back-to-back American League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal<\/a> will return to the rotation on Saturday against the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re adding the best pitcher in baseball,\u201d Hinch said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to describe the boost that will be. \u201d[It] can\u2019t be overstated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remarkably, the start will come just 38 days after the 29-year-old lefty underwent arthroscopic surgery on his pitching elbow. Initially expected to have loose bodies removed from his elbow, the surgery proved to be less invasive than expected and bumped up Skubal\u2019s return timeline.<\/p>\n

In his seventh season out of Seattle University, Skubal hasn\u2019t started since an Apr. 29 game against the Atlanta Braves<\/a>. In seven starts this season, Skubal is 3-2 with a 2.70 earned run average and 0.946 WHIP over 43.1 innings pitched. He\u2019s struck out 45 batters and walked six.<\/p>\n

Skubal is playing on a one-year, $32 million arbitration award. He is set to become a free agent at season\u2019s end and the most coveted prize of the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ace is back. Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch announced Thursday that back-to-back American League Cy Young Award…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,100384,462,82,75158],"class_list":["post-730117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-tigers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-230","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-tarik-skubal-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1055775"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730117","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=730117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}