Tigers' Perez to miss at least a month

The injury bug continues to bite Tigers No. 3 prospect Franklin Perez.
On Friday, Detroit revealed that Perez, currently with Class A Advanced Lakeland Flying Tigers, will be out for four to six weeks while rehabbing from right shoulder tendinitis. Perez is MLB.com's No. 78 overall prospect.

This is another setback for the 21-year-old Perez, who missed the first nine weeks of the 2018 season after suffering a right lat strain during Spring Training and then returned to the disabled list in July due to right shoulder capsular inflammation.

In his seven appearances with Lakeland and the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Tigers in 2018, Perez went 0-2 while throwing 19 1/3 total innings, allowing 14 earned runs on 18 hits and eight walks while fanning 14. Perez, along with catcher Jake Rogers and outfielder Daz Cameron, was acquired by the Tigers in July 2017 in the trade that sent pitcher Justin Verlander to the Astros. 
Perez's injury-plagued season was expected to be his breakout year after a successful 2017 campaign in which Perez went 6-3 with a 3.02 ERA while playing for Class A Advanced Buies Creek and Double-A Corpus Christi in the Houston system. In 19 appearances that season, Perez rang up 78 strikeouts over 86 1/3 innings.