{"id":24926,"date":"2025-05-14T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/24926\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:09:09","slug":"jason-foley-undergoes-season-ending-shoulder-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/24926\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Foley Undergoes Season-Ending Shoulder Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tigers right-hander Jason Foley<\/a> underwent season-ending surgery. Manager A.J. Hinch announced the news to reporters, including Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an odd season for Foley, who led the 2024 Tigers with 28 saves. Detroit surprisingly optioned him to Triple-A Toledo after a rough spring training. He took the demotion in stride and carved up Triple-A opposition, firing 6 2\/3 shutout innings with a 41% strikeout rate in five appearances. He looked as though he was on the cusp of a return to the majors, but Foley was diagnosed with a shoulder strain in the middle of last month and hasn\u2019t pitched since. Now, he won\u2019t throw again until the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Foley, he won\u2019t accrue big league service time right now since he\u2019s on the minor league injured list. He could pick up some big league time if the Tigers call him to the majors and place him on the 60-day IL whenever they next need a roster spot. Enough time has passed in 2025 that Foley won\u2019t be able to move from three years of service to four years. The Tigers surely weren\u2019t intending for their original demotion of Foley to buy them another season of club control, but it\u2019s effectively done just that \u2014 so long as they tender him a contract anyhow.<\/p>\n

Foley and the Tigers agreed to a $3.15MM salary this past offseason, avoiding a trip through the arbitration process. Typically, when a player who\u2019s agreed to an arbitration salary subsequently misses the entire season, he and the team agree to the same salary for the following year. That could well be the case here.<\/p>\n

Even with Foley out for the year, there\u2019s good reason for the Tigers to tender him this winter. He was sharp in Triple-A prior to the injury and just last year posted 60 innings of 3.15 ERA ball. Dating back to 2022, Foley has given the Tigers 189 1\/3 innings with a 3.18 ERA, an 18.4% strikeout rate, a 5.9% walk rate and a 54% ground-ball rate. He\u2019s saved 35 games and picked up another 40 holds along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tigers right-hander Jason Foley underwent season-ending surgery. Manager A.J. Hinch announced the news to reporters, including Cody Stavenhagen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,540],"class_list":{"0":"post-24926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jason-foley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114503284867070885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926","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=24926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}