A day after the Detroit Tigers say they got an apologetic text from Justin Verlander, their medical staff on Friday refuted charges of a “misdiagnosis” made when Verlander pitched in Detroit in 2015.
The fallout came from a Bleacher Report profile on Verlander and his wife, Kate Upton, describing Verlander’s psychological and physical challenges during 2014 and 2015 as he fought, first, after-effects from 2013 abdominal surgery, and, later, a torn LAT muscle in the back of his right (throwing) shoulder.
In the Bleacher Report account, Verlander said the team and its doctors failed to understand early in 2015 that he was more seriously hurt than an initial diagnosis of a triceps strain.