{"id":496598,"date":"2026-03-01T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496598\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:08:07","slug":"detroit-tigers-pitcher-troy-melton-is-expected-to-miss-the-start-of-season-due-to-elbow-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496598\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers pitcher Troy Melton is expected to miss the start of season due to elbow inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/sports\/tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Detroit Tigers<\/a>\u00a0right-hander Troy Melton is not expected to be available for the start of the season due to inflammation in his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told reporters Friday that Melton won&#8217;t throw for one to two weeks. Melton told the Detroit Free-Press on Saturday he is &#8220;not too concerned over anything too long-term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Melton, 25, was 3-2 with a 2.76 ERA in 16 games, including four starts, as a rookie in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Melton&#8217;s 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.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/justin-verlander-says-he-knew-he-might-someday-come-back-to-the-tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Verlander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/verlander-and-valdez-will-get-final-payments-of-31-million-deferred-money-from-tigers-in-2039\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Framber Valdez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers begin their regular season on March 26 on the road against the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers\u00a0right-hander Troy Melton is not expected to be available for the start of the season due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[372,29502,13090,363,99],"class_list":["post-496598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-justin-verlander","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496598","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=496598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}