The Detroit Tigers positioned Miguel Cabrera on the 10-day injured record Sunday with a left biceps pressure.

The transfer is retroactive to Saturday for the 39-year-old designated hitter and first baseman.

Cabrera is batting .256 with 4 homers and 37 RBIs in 102 video games in his twentieth 12 months within the majors.

The 12-time All-Star and two-time American League MVP has 506 profession homers and three,079 hits.

Detroit supervisor A.J. Hinch advised reporters after Saturday’s sport, a 12-2 loss to the Kansas Metropolis Royals, that the transfer didn’t essentially sign the top of Cabrera’s season.

“We do need him to get some extra at-bats this 12 months,” Hinch mentioned. “We do not understand how lengthy it is going to take till the power is again. That is the largest challenge with a pressure. However we’re hopeful he is going to have the ability to get again within the batter’s field this 12 months.”

In a corresponding transaction, Detroit chosen the contract of Triple-A slugger Josh Lester forward of Sunday’s sequence finale with the visiting Royals.

Lester, 28, has performed 723 video games over seven seasons within the minors because the Tigers drafted him within the thirteenth spherical in 2015. The infielder has not but made his MLB debut.

Lester is batting .243 with 25 homers, 35 doubles and 82 RBIs in 125 video games this season with Toledo.

To make room for him on the 40-man roster, outfielder Austin Meadows was transferred to the 60-day injured record.

Additionally on Sunday, right-handed pitcher Michael Pineda was designated for task and right-hander Luis Castillo was known as up from Triple-A Toledo, Hinch introduced. Pineda is 2-7 with a 5.79 ERA.