{"id":747870,"date":"2026-06-19T19:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:11:18","slug":"justin-verlander-to-miss-several-weeks-with-hamstring-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747870\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Verlander To Miss Several Weeks With Hamstring Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/darragh\" title=\"Posts by Darragh McDonald\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darragh McDonald<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at June 19, 2026 2:00pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>It was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/06\/tigers-to-use-keider-montero-in-relief-activate-verlander-on-sunday.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> earlier this week that right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/verlaju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Verlander<\/a> would be coming off the 60-day injured list to start Sunday\u2019s game, with righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/monteke01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keider Montero<\/a> moved to the bullpen. That will no longer happen. Verlander suffered a left hamstring injury while throwing a bullpen on Wednesday and has now been diagnosed with a strain with will cost him several weeks, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CodyStavenhagen\/status\/2068044882942259466?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic<\/a>. Stavenhagen <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CodyStavenhagen\/status\/2068045483159732614?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">adds<\/a> that Montero will start that game instead.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Darragh McDonald | at June 19, 2026 2:00pm CDT It was reported earlier this week that right-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,7205,82388,462,82],"class_list":["post-747870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justin-verlander","tag-keider-montero","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747870","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=747870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}