With a clear lack of free agent bats at prices and positions the Detroit Tigers would be interested in, this offseason was always going to center around pitching. The front office struck right away to land a nice little offensive upgrade in Mark Canha, but with Eduardo Rodriguez and then Spencer Turnbull out of the picture, the pitching staff needed reinforcements just to get to a modest improvement over the 2023 edition. The addition of Kenta Maeda to the rotation and now Andrew Chafin to the bullpen has the pitching staff on more solid ground.
As the post-Winter Meetings offseason extravaganza takes shape in the wake of Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting free agent deal with the Dodgers, and the Juan Soto trade to the Yankees, let’s take a look at the Tigers bullpen and see how Chafin could turn them into a very strong unit in 2024.