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The Detroit Tigers have the ideal final free agent signing in front of them.
The Detroit Tigers are interested in one of baseball's most experienced closers. Free agent Kenley Jansen is on the team's radar.
Former MLB GM believes Tigers will make 'risky' Tarik Skubal trade decision originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Detroit Tigers have been the center of attention this winter in trade talks, with Tarik Skubal drawing interest from nearly every contending team in the league.
To add to the mix, the Tigers recently signed Drew Anderson to a one-year contract after four seasons in Asia. In 2025, he registered a 2.25 ERA with 51 walks and 245 strikeouts across 171â…” innings in 30 starts in KBO League. Anderson, who turns 32 in late March, will report to spring training as a starter, with a fallback role as a reliever.
The Detroit Tigers are heading to the MLB Winter Meetings looking to do things that would put the team over the top in 2026.
(Expected Weighted On-Base Average on Contact) is a measure from Statcast that considers a player’s offensive production only when they make contact, removing strikeouts, walks, and hit-by-pitches to assess the quality of batted balls, indicating how well a player should have performed on contact alone, not what they actually got.
Jackson Jobe last pitched for the Detroit Tigers on May 28, then underwent surgery June 16 to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
These six players just missed the cut for the Free Press' All-125 team despite outsized roles in the 125-season history of the Detroit Tigers.
Justin Verlander stands among historical greats in Tigers' bWAR rankings for pitchers.