{"id":64500,"date":"2022-09-03T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tigers-of-austin-meadows-says-he-will-miss-rest-of-season-due-to-mental-health-issues\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T04:15:07","slug":"tigers-of-austin-meadows-says-he-will-miss-rest-of-season-due-to-mental-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tigers-of-austin-meadows-says-he-will-miss-rest-of-season-due-to-mental-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers OF Austin Meadows says he will miss rest of season due to mental health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It has been a difficult year for Austin Meadows in his first season with the Detroit Tigers.  And now it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>The former All-Star outfielder announced Friday that he will not return to the field this season due to mental health issues.  He said he still plans to remain with the team, he just won&#8217;t play.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows&#8217; full statement:<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-pull-quote-wrapper caas-img caas-lazy\" data-src=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"caas-blockquote\">\n<p>This season has been an unfortunate struggle with a series of injuries and illness, from dealing with vertigo early on, then COVID, to bilateral tendinitis in my Achilles, and then having to go through the rehab process each time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-pull-quote-wrapper caas-img caas-lazy\" data-src=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"caas-blockquote\">\n<p>What I have told very few people is that I also have been struggling with my mental health in a way that has extended my time away from the game that I love so much.  I&#8217;ve been dealing with this privately with a great team of professionals, but I need to continue to put in the hard work off the field towards feeling mentally healthy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caas-pull-quote-wrapper caas-img caas-lazy\" data-src=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"caas-blockquote\">\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been back in the clubhouse the past few weeks, and plan to remain with the club through the end of season, I am still not ready to return to the field.  I am so grateful for my family, my teammates, and the Tigers organization for supporting me through this.  I can&#8217;t do this alone, and I hope in sharing my experience I can touch at least one person who might be going through their own struggles and encourage them to reach out to someone for help.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Meadows mentions, he has dealt with a litany of issues this season, first hitting the injured list with vertigo on May 16, then dealing with COVID-19 in June and Achilles tendinitis in both ankles a few later.  He has not played in a game since June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers manager AJ Hinch not only pledged the team would support Meadows in his recovery, but commended him for embracing the problem:<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-pull-quote-wrapper caas-img caas-lazy\" data-src=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"caas-blockquote\">\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t say enough how proud I am of him,\u201d Hinch said.  \u201cMaybe there&#8217;s one kid out there, maybe there&#8217;s a teammate out there, maybe an ex-teammate, maybe somebody around the league that is struggling on their own and curious whether they should call for help or even admit that they have issues that they need to work through.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"link caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-pull-quote-wrapper caas-img caas-lazy\" data-src=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"caas-blockquote\">\n<p>\u201cAustin has chosen the path to be proactive and help others while helping himself and getting to the next step of his recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meadows joined Detroit only a few days before opening day in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays that sent back infield prospect Austin Paredes and a comp B draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>In 36 games with the Tigers, Meadows hit .250\/.347\/.328 with no home runs and 11 RBI.  That pace represents a step back from Meadows&#8217; production with the Rays, with whom he made an All-Star Game in 2019 and World Series in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s been a difficult year for the Tigers, who tried to take a step forward in their rebuild with the Meadows trade and free agents like Javier Baez and Eduardo Rodriguez, but now sit in last place in the AL Central at 50-81 .<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 640px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%;\"><noscript><img alt=\"DETROIT, MI - MAY 15: Detroit Tigers right fielder Austin Meadows (17) runs off of the field at the end of the first inning of a regular season Major League Baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Detroit Tigers on May 15, 2022 at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.  (Photo by Scott W. Grau\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/0N8AmrdzZPUec5TdJVIZwQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-08\/f75821e0-2b11-11ed-bfcf-dfbbc8b629bf\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Austin Meadows has had a brutal first season with the Tigers.  (Photo by Scott W. Grau\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a difficult year for Austin Meadows in his first season with the Detroit Tigers. And now it&#8217;s over. The former All-Star outfielder announced Friday that he will not return to the field this season due to mental health issues. He said he still plans to remain with the team, he just won&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tigers-of-austin-meadows-says-he-will-miss-rest-of-season-due-to-mental-health-issues\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tigers OF Austin Meadows says he will miss rest of season due to mental health issues<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64336,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/detroit-tigers-austin-meadows-to-miss-rest-of-year-due-to-injuries-mental-health\/","url_meta":{"origin":64500,"position":0},"title":"Detroit Tigers&#8217; Austin Meadows to miss rest of year due to injuries, mental health","date":"September 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Detroit Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows will remain out of the lineup for the remainder of the season as he revealed in a post on Friday that he's \"struggling with my mental health\" in addition to a myriad of previous injuries.\"What I have told very few people is that I also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":64776,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/detroit-tigers-austin-meadows-to-miss-rest-of-2022-for-mental-health\/","url_meta":{"origin":64500,"position":1},"title":"Detroit Tigers&#8217; Austin Meadows to miss rest of 2022 for mental health","date":"September 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Detroit Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows has stepped away from on-field baseball activities for the remainder of the 2022 season.Meadows, who has dealt with several injuries and illnesses since May, has been around the Tigers' clubhouse for workouts over the past few weeks and will continue to be with his teammates\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/09\/01\/PDTF\/688c7aa0-ee9d-4cfe-b516-b45ec9760191-AP22244635605810.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":64255,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/austin-meadows-will-miss-remainder-of-2022-season-to-address-mental-health\/","url_meta":{"origin":64500,"position":2},"title":"Austin Meadows Will Miss Remainder Of 2022 Season To Address Mental Health","date":"September 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows took to Twitter this afternoon to announce that he's been away from the playing field attending to a mental health concern. 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