{"id":627816,"date":"2026-05-07T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627816\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:10:09","slug":"tigers-place-gleyber-torres-on-il-with-oblique-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627816\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Place Gleyber Torres On IL With Oblique Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers announced that second baseman Gleyber Torres<\/a> has been placed on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to May 4th, with a left oblique strain. Infielder Jace Jung<\/a> was recalled in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n

Torres departed Saturday\u2019s game due to left side tightness. He didn\u2019t immediately go on the IL but it now seems the club has decided to put him on the shelf, at least for a little while. It\u2019ll be a blow to the Detroit lineup. Torres only has two home runs so far but is drawing walks at the best rate of his career, a 17.4% clip which is about three ticks better than last year. That has led to a .259\/.389\/.328 batting line that is a little unusual but still translates to a wRC+ of 111, indicating he\u2019s been 11% better than the league average hitter overall.<\/p>\n

His absence is all the more notable because of the game of musical chairs the Tigers have been playing on the infield. Trey Sweeney<\/a> has been on the IL all year due to a shoulder strain. Zach McKinstry<\/a> was on the shelf for a few weeks due to left hip\/abdominal inflammation and Javier B\u00e1ez<\/a> just recently suffered an ankle sprain.<\/p>\n

To address those injuries, the Tigers have brought guys like Zack Short<\/a> and Paul DeJong<\/a> into the system. Short even got a brief stint on the roster but was quickly bumped off when McKinstry was reinstated from the IL yesterday. Now just after getting McKinstry back, Torres departs.<\/p>\n

With B\u00e1ez out, Kevin McGonigle<\/a> should be covering shortstop pretty much every day. Second and third base may be more of a rotation, with guys like Colt Keith<\/a>, McKinstry, Jung and Hao-Yu Lee<\/a> all in the mix at those spots.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Junfu Han, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers announced that second baseman Gleyber Torres has been placed on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10005,242672,99],"class_list":["post-627816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-jace-jung","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627816","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=627816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}