Kenley Jansen is 24 saves away from one of the rarest milestones in baseball history –– and somehow, that’s not the headline.
It should be –– only Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman have ever reached 500 saves. Jansen is sitting on 476, already one of the greatest closers to ever do it, already ticketed for Cooperstown. And yet, when the Detroit Tigers signed him — one year, $9 million plus a club option for 2027 — you didn’t hear him saying, “Where’s my ninth inning?”
Instead, you heard him say, “I understand I’m chasing 500, but at the end of the day, it’s about winning.