{"id":788710,"date":"2026-07-08T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:52:18","slug":"tigers-justin-verlander-retiring-after-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788710\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers&#8217; Justin Verlander retiring after 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three-time Cy Young winner and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/detroit-tigers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"detroit-tigers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> pitcher has announced he&#8217;ll be retiring after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander made the announcement in a social media post on Wednesday, shortly after the league revealed he had been named to the MLB all-star roster as a Legend Pick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I&#8217;m fully committed to giving my team everything I have for the rest of this season, I&#8217;ve decided this will be my last,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It&#8217;s fitting I get to finish where it all started \u2014 with the Detroit Tigers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verlander has been on the injured list since April and has only appeared in one game for the Tigers this season.<\/p>\n<p>He will not be active for the All-Star Game itself, but is expected to attend and be honoured during the week&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 10th all-star nod for the 43-year-old, whose legendary career includes three Cy Young awards and an American League MVP in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three-time Cy Young winner and Detroit Tigers pitcher has announced he&#8217;ll be retiring after the 2026 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-788710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788710","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=788710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}