{"id":341913,"date":"2025-12-10T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:02:09","slug":"kyle-finnegan-and-detroit-tigers-agree-to-19-million-2-year-contract-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341913\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Finnegan and Detroit Tigers agree to $19 million, 2-year contract, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kyle-finnegan-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Finnegan<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/detroit-tigers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> agreed to a $19 million, two-year contract pending a physical, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">A 34-year-old who was an All-Star in 2024 when he had a career-high 38 saves, Finnegan was acquired by the Tigers from Washington on July 31 for minor league pitchers Josh Randall and R.J. Sales. He throws mostly fastballs that averaged 96.3 mph this year and splitters, also mixing in some sliders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Finnegan was 3-0 with a 1.50 ERA and four saves in 16 relief appearances for the Tigers, striking out 23 and walking four in 18 innings. He didn&#8217;t pitch for the Tigers between Aug. 31 and Sept. 20 because of a right adductor strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">He was 4-4 with a 3.47 ERA with 24 saves in 56 relief appearances overall this year, striking out 55 and walking 18 in 57 innings. He had a $6 million, one-year contract that included $4 million in deferred money payable through January 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">He is 26-30 with a 3.55 ERA with 112 saves over 347 relief appearances in six seasons with the Nationals (2020-25) and Tigers. He struck out 343 and walked 135 in 347 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Finnegan is part of a bullpen that includes right-handers Will Vest and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/brenan-hanifee-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brenan Hanifee<\/a>, and lefties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/tyler-holton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Holton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/brant-hurter-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brant Hurter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Right-hander Kyle Finnegan and the Detroit Tigers agreed to a $19 million, two-year contract pending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-341913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}