It’s Deadline Day and Scott Harris is adding to the bullpen, piece by piece. Around lunchtime today, reports came in that the Detroit Tigers had acquired Kyle Finnegan, the closer for the Washington Nationals. In exchange, Detroit is sending two A-ball right-handers, Josh Randall and R.J. Sales, back to Washington.
Finnegan is a 33 year old, six year veteran righty on a one year contract. He’s due approximately $2M for the rest of the season, which has gone just alright for him so far. Finnegan is a fairly typical bullpen arm, throwing 96-97 mph on his heater ~60% of the time and leaning on his best secondary, a splitter, for most of the rest.