{"id":336102,"date":"2025-12-10T05:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336102\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:08:07","slug":"tigers-to-re-sign-kyle-finnegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336102\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers To Re-Sign Kyle Finnegan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers are nearing an agreement to re-sign reliever\u00a0Kyle Finnegan<\/a>, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a>. It\u2019ll be a two-year, $19MM guarantee with $1MM available in bonuses, reports Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s yet another domino to fall in a quick-moving relief market. Detroit initially acquired Finnegan from the Nationals at the trade deadline. He carried a 4.38 earned run average with a sub-20% strikeout rate at the time of the trade. It frankly seemed underwhelming for the team\u2019s biggest deadline bullpen pickup. The Tigers correctly identified Finnegan as a player who had another level of upside with a change to his pitch mix, however.<\/p>\n

In Washington, Finnegan had thrown his fastball around two-thirds of the time. He used his splitter at a roughly 30% clip and sporadically mixed in a slider. The Tigers encouraged him to dramatically scale up the use of the split-finger offering. It was about a 50-50 divide in August, and he used the splitter more than 55% of the time in September and into the postseason. The impact on his results was immediate.<\/p>\n

Finnegan allowed only three runs in 16 regular season innings as a Tiger. He fanned 23 of 66 opponents, almost doubling his early-season strikeout rate. His swinging strike rate jumped by five percentage points. The righty secured four saves and three holds while surrendering just one lead. He missed a couple weeks in September with a groin strain but immediately stepped back into a high-leverage role for skipper A.J. Hinch. Finnegan added 7 1\/3 frames of three-run ball in the postseason, albeit with only three strikeouts.<\/p>\n

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