Sometimes the winter hands you a layup. Detroit just has to finish at the rim.
The Detroit Tigers didn’t need a front-office summit or an analytics deep dive to recognize what worked. When Kyle Finnegan showed up at the trade deadline, he stabilized the bullpen overnight, turning late innings that once felt fragile into a steady rhythm. His fastball played up, his strikeout rate jumped, and his presence on the mound carried the kind of calm this young roster had been searching for all season.