{"id":244573,"date":"2026-05-21T23:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/tigers-ace-tarik-skubal-speaks-out-in-wake-of-unexpected-injury-update\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:07:35","slug":"tigers-ace-tarik-skubal-speaks-out-in-wake-of-unexpected-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/tigers-ace-tarik-skubal-speaks-out-in-wake-of-unexpected-injury-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers ace Tarik Skubal speaks out in wake of unexpected injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/detroit_tigers\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> are waiting patiently for Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal to make his return from injury.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal underwent surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow at the beginning of May. His initial return timeline was unclear, but expected to be somewhere between two to three months.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, an update emerged on the Skubal front as the Tigers pitcher was seen throwing a bullpen session at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n<p>MLB insider Jon Morosi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonmorosi\/status\/2057474990199509199\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">later added<\/a> that the bullpen session \u201cwent well, by all indications,\u201d and revealed that Skubal\u2019s return from injury could be on the \u201cearly end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/tigers_ace_tarik_skubal_speaks_out_in_wake_of_unexpected_injury_update\/s1_127_43869153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers are waiting patiently for Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal to make his return from injury. Skubal underwent surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow at the beginning of May. His initial return timeline was unclear, but expected to be somewhere between two to three months. On Thursday, an update emerged on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}