{"id":496154,"date":"2026-02-28T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496154\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:39:07","slug":"detroit-tigers-right-hander-troy-melton-to-miss-start-of-season-due-to-elbow-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496154\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers right-hander Troy Melton to miss start of season due to elbow inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/troy-melton\/1316909\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/troy-melton\/1316909\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Melton<\/a> is not expected to be available for the start of the season due to inflammation in his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told reporters Friday that Melton won\u2019t throw for one to two weeks. Melton told the Detroit Free-Press on Saturday he is \u201cnot too concerned over anything too long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Melton, 25, was 3-2 with a 2.76 ERA in 16 games, including four starts, as a rookie in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Melton\u2019s chances of earning a spot in the rotation took a hit when the Tigers agreed to deals with veteran starting pitchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/justin-verlander\/277705\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/justin-verlander\/277705\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Verlander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/framber-valdez\/873146\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/framber-valdez\/873146\" target=\"_blank\">Framber Valdez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers right-hander Troy Melton is not expected to be available for the start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-496154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}