Name: Detroit Tigers Sign MLB Saves Leader Kenley Jansen
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Description: The Detroit Tigers inked a one-year deal worth over $10M with MLB's top saves leader, Kenley Jansen, to strengthen their bullpen and bring a veteran presence.

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The Detroit Tigers inked a one-year deal worth over $10M with MLB's top saves leader, Kenley Jansen, to strengthen their bullpen and bring a veteran presence.

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I want to pivot to the Detroit Tigers now because they got Major League Baseball's active saves leader locked up. They signed Kenley Jansen to a 1-year deal that's north of $10 million. Kenley Jansen is a guy that seems like he's going to pitch until somebody takes the baseball out of his hand and says, thank you very much, heck of a career. We may see you in Cooperstown in the next couple of years. Kenley Jansen is not built the same way that Aroldis Chapman is, where Chapman is still a top 5 to 10 reliever in Major League Baseball at his age. Kenley Jansen is someone that is going to get the 9th. It can be a very stressful 9th inning at points, but Kenley Jansen is going to get the 8th or the 9th or the 7th for Detroit. They signed Kyle Finnegan as well. Detroit's starting to fill out that bullpen a little bit, and you just wonder like, What does that anchor do in the midst of bullpen chaos for AJ Hinch? Yeah, and we always talk about how hard it is to to analyze relievers, right? Because you work, you're working on a small sample size already. It's a fraction of the sample size that you're looking at with the starter. And then a lot of times, some of the more endearing qualities like I talked about with Iglesias, like, oh, well, did you see the way he finished the year? Um, and it's like, OK, well now I'm dealing with a small sample within a small sample. That said, When a guy toes the rubber 36 times, which is like the final 36 times that Kenley Jansen towed the rubber after he gave up two earned runs at Baltimore on June 15th. From that point forward, he had a 1.02 ERA. He struck out 27% of batters and walked 7% of batters for the Angels, and held opponents to a 118 batting average. Something clicked there, uh, for, for Ken Lee, who's, you know, had to adjust a little bit over the years as his stuff doesn't stuff the same way that it did, but he's still Ken Lee with, with, I think, a, a unique look with that cutter, uh, and the sinker that he'll mix in a little bit off of that. But I think what really stood out to me is he started to up like a slider usage a little bit just to take, I think, hitters off of that cadence and all of a sudden you saw a lot more success and. I mean, again, small sample of a small sample, but he didn't give up a hit in his final 10 appearances of the season. And I just, I, I struggle to think that that could be like luck there. I think clearly Kenley found something, whether it was from a command perspective, changing his, his usage, his location, whatever it may be. I'm not gonna pretend that I dug that deep into it. But I think he's a plus addition to this Tigers bullpen where, you know, Kenley reminds me a little bit of like when I was playing like fantasy football in in high school. I would never want to draft Larry Fitzgerald, cause I'd always think that he was too old, and then. I knew that the one year I take him, he's gonna stink. And I tell myself that, and then he'd be a great flex guy for you. And I'd always be like, damn, I should have just taken Larry. He's so consistent. But I couldn't do it at that point. If I thought he was too old the year before, I'm not gonna do it again the next year. I, that's how I always feel with Kenley, and then he ends up turning in a pretty good year and usually ends up getting better down the stretch. So, I'm not gonna count this guy out. Would I, would he be on the top of my priority list? No, but neither was Larry Fitz, and Larry Fitz helped some of my classmates and some of my friends. Win fantasy championships and not me. So, I will say, I, I, I think he clearly is an asset to them and I think the Tigers are buying into the way that he finished that season. And, and those 5 years of Larry Fitz made him one of the greatest wide receivers of all time, right? Him not being the spring chicken he was, yet still outperforming Father Time, that made him a Hall of Famer. And I'm just curious if Kenley Jansen does make it. And I'm not gonna ask you, is Kennedy Jansen a Hall of Famer. I'm gonna ask you this. Is that Kenley Jansen cutter close to entering the pantheon of reliever pitches all time, and we talk about Mariano Rivera's cutter, that's probably the best singular pitch in the history of Major League Baseball. Billy Wagner's fastball from the left side, Trevor Hoffman's changeup, Aroldis Chapman's fastball. After that, I don't really know the Arsenal of Lee Smith. I don't really remember, you know, if I'm not mistaken, maybe, but like. Kenley's cutter has to be close to that conversation, no? Uh, yeah, because I think what is the final touch on like a pitch like that, right? Like the, the specific pitch that you call back to is. When they can throw it 80% of the time at 38 years old and still get guys out. And that's exactly what Kenley's doing. That's what Mariano did, right? And I think that's what makes this an iconic pitch with without a doubt. It's like, as the velocity drops, as he gets older, you know, as, as he really looks like, physically he doesn't look like anything, like the, the guy that was a catcher, a switch-hitting catcher at one point and, you know, an $80 million dollar reliever. He's still able to get you out. And, and I think that puts that pitch, which by the way, opponents hit 164 against last year into, you know, one of the best reliever pitches of all time. And I think this is a big reason why Kenley wants to keep playing is he wants those 500 saves. And I mean, he's gonna have a good chance to get there, right? He needs 24 more. That, that'll be pretty cool. Uh, what, what is it, forever to, to, to have 500 saves? I think so. I mean, that's, that'll be pretty sweet.

Detroit Tigers Sign MLB Saves Leader Kenley Jansen

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