{"id":344729,"date":"2025-12-14T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:24:07","slug":"detroit-tigers-bolster-bullpen-add-kenley-jansen-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344729\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers bolster bullpen, add Kenley Jansen on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Detroit Tigers have agreed to a one-year contract with veteran closer Kenley Jansen, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal, which is pending a physical, also includes a club option for 2027, a source told Passan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jansen, 38, is Major League Baseball&#8217;s active saves leader with 476 saves over his 16-year career. The right-hander is two saves away from tying Hall of Famer Lee Smith for third on MLB&#8217;s all-time saves list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jansen joins a Tigers bullpen that has operated without a designated closer under manager A.J. Hinch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Will Vest led Detroit with 23 saves last season before ceding save opportunities late in the season to Kyle Finnegan, who joined the Tigers in a midseason trade with the Nationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jansen went 5-4 with a 2.59 ERA and converted 29 of 30 save opportunities in 62 appearances last season with the Angels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After a strong finish to the season &#8212; he converted each of his last 14 save opportunities and did not allow a hit in 10 innings over his last 10 appearances &#8212; Jansen said he was not considering retiring and that his goal was to play &#8220;four more years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Tigers will be Jansen&#8217;s fifth team in the past six seasons. He is the second reliever the Tigers have locked up this month after re-signing Finnegan to a two-year deal at the winter meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers have agreed to a one-year contract with veteran closer Kenley Jansen, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,100384,462,82],"class_list":["post-344729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-tigers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-230","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}