MINNEAPOLIS >> Sawyer Gipson-Long, the Tigers’ right-hander who made an impressive big-league debut last September, will be lost for the rest of the season and possibly into the 2025 season, as well.

The Tigers announced Friday that Gipson-Long will undergo Tommy John surgery on the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow on Monday. Gipson-Long will have UCL reconstruction with an internal brace. It’s the same type of surgery that Casey Mize, Justin Verlander, Tyler Glasnow and others have had in recent years.

The reconstruction will repair the tear and the internal brace provides an additional level of stability.

“I feel for Sawyer,” manager AJ Hinch said. “He had no problems whatsoever until his last outing and then it came up. And the more we looked into it, the more this was the result.”

The Tigers didn’t announce who was performing the surgery, but the last of the medical opinions the Tigers’ sought was from Dr. Keith Meister in Dallas.

“The more you go and get opinions, you are always hoping there’s a differing of opinions,” Hinch said. “In this case, it was pretty clear-cut.”

Gipson-Long, 26, went 1-0 with a 2.70 ERA in four starts last September. He came to spring training very much in the competition for a spot in the rotation. But he suffered a groin strain in one of his first bullpens and missed virtually the whole camp.

The forearm soreness came after he pitched three innings in a rehab start at Low-A Lakeland earlier this month.

“He will miss this year and into next year,” Hinch said. “But he will get it fixed and like many around the game, he will come back stronger than ever.”