By Jason Beck

Octavio Dotel’s streak of World Series appearances appears to be over. Whether is career is done is now a serious question as well.

“Right now he’s just not feeling 100 percent, so we’re basically shutting him down,” team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski said. “It’s a situation where we don’t plan on him rejoining us. His arm’s bothering him. He’s just not 100 percent.”

The team recalled Dotel from his minor-league rehab assignment, but will not activate him from the disabled list. The forearm tightness that forced him out of Friday’s game at Triple-A Toledo is a season-ending injury, if not worse.

“What happened was when he went up to Toledo he tried to get a little more [on his fastball],” manager Jim Leyland said. “he did get a little more, but the forearm just tightened right up and he just didn’t feel like he was ready to compete at this level.”

Dotel returned to Detroit this weekend for an examination from team doctors, and he could seek additional opinion from a specialist from here.

Dotel will be a 40-year-old free agent in November, so any injury that requires a lengthy rehab to return could be career-threatening. Neither Leyland nor Dombrowski know Dotel’s future plans.

He has pitched 951 innings over 758 Major League games for a record 13 different teams in a 15-year career.

“Dotel’s had a great career, won a world championship,” Leyland said. “I wish he was on the club and I wish everything was going right. And who knows, he might be contemplating trying to pitch next year. I’m not saying this is career ending. I’m just saying right now he’s not going to be available for the Tigers.”