{"id":348312,"date":"2025-12-14T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348312\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:01:08","slug":"sources-tigers-bolster-bullpen-add-kenley-jansen-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348312\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Tigers bolster bullpen, add Kenley Jansen on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 14, 2025, 07:45 AM ET<\/p>\n

The Detroit Tigers<\/a> have agreed to a one-year contract with veteran closer Kenley Jansen<\/a>, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan.<\/p>\n

The deal, which is pending a physical, also includes a club option for 2027, a source told Passan.<\/p>\n

Jansen, 38, is Major League Baseball’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’s all-time saves list.<\/p>\n

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Jansen joins a Tigers bullpen that has operated without a designated closer under manager A.J. Hinch.<\/p>\n

Will Vest<\/a> led Detroit with 23 saves last season before ceding save opportunities late in the season to Kyle Finnegan<\/a>, who joined the Tigers in a midseason trade with the Nationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jansen went 5-4 with a 2.59 ERA and converted 29 of 30 save opportunities in 62 appearances last season with the Angels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a strong finish to the season — he converted each of his last 14 save opportunities and did not allow a hit in 10 innings over his last 10 appearances — Jansen said he was not considering retiring and that his goal was to play “four more years.”<\/p>\n

The Tigers will be Jansen’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":"Dec 14, 2025, 07:45 AM ET The Detroit Tigers have agreed to a one-year contract with veteran closer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-348312","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\/348312","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=348312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}