{"id":238906,"date":"2025-08-10T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/238906\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:50:09","slug":"tigers-place-matt-vierling-on-10-day-il-with-oblique-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/238906\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Place Matt Vierling On 10-Day IL With Oblique Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers announced today that they have placed Matt Vierling<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with a left oblique strain. Trey Sweeney<\/a> was recalled to take his place on the active roster. Manager A.J. Hinch told reporters, including Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic<\/a>, that the strain is \u201cmild.\u201d Yet, with just seven weeks left in the regular season, it\u2019s not out of the question that Vierling could be done for the year. Hinch, however, remains optimistic, saying, \u201cWe have not eliminated the chance for him to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vierling played a big part in Detroit\u2019s surprising success last year but hasn\u2019t been able to contribute much in 2025. He missed the first two months of the season with a rotator cuff strain in his throwing arm and only made it back for four games in late May before inflammation in the same shoulder shelved him for another month. When healthy, he has struggled to impact the baseball. His hard-hit rate is roughly in line with his career average, and his barrel rate is a career high, but his power numbers have never been worse. He has just three doubles and one home run in 31 games, good for a .307 slugging percentage. His .068 isolated power is the worst on the team (min. 100 PA).<\/p>\n

Hinch told reporters yesterday, including Christian Romo of the Detroit Free Press<\/a>, that Vierling had been nursing \u201cintermittent soreness\u201d in his oblique throughout August. Evidently, the issue eventually proved serious enough for the outfielder to hit the IL.<\/p>\n

For now, the Tigers can move Javier B\u00e1ez<\/a> back to center field in Vierling\u2019s place. Wenceel P\u00e9rez<\/a> is another option to play the position; he suffered a right foot contusion on Saturday, but tests came back negative. He expects to be available today off the bench (per Evan Woodberry of MLive.com<\/a>). As for Sweeney, he can cover at shortstop when B\u00e1ez is playing the outfield. At some point further down the line, however, Detroit will hope to have Parker Meadows<\/a> back as the everyday center fielder. He has been out with a quad strain since late July. While he doesn\u2019t yet have a timeline to return, Hinch told Chris McCosky of The Detroit News<\/a> that Meadows is \u201cdoing better and better\u201d in his rehab. The skipper said the Tigers are trying to move him along \u201cas fast as [they] can\u201d without causing a setback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers announced today that they have placed Matt Vierling on the 10-day injured list with a left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,1387,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-238906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-matt-vierling","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115006211880083265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}