Ken Rosenthal suspects Tigers still have one more notable bullpen move in them

The Tigers' offseason has been deeply underwhelming, to say the absolute least. Aside from getting Kenley Jansen, who is a nice addition, Kyle Finnegan (no-brainer) and Drew Anderson (questionable) don't really get the people going.

And there's been little reason to believe that the Tigers will keep adding to their pitching staff. Ranger Suarez and Michael King links went nowhere, Detroit evidently wasn't involved in Tatsuya Imai's market at all, and it's been all quiet on the rumors front for weeks.

Tigers fans have been fiending for even a hint of another move to wake us up, even if they end up going the same way as the Suarez and King rumors, and Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic finally offered a couple of names for us to cling to.

They wrote that the Tigers "could look to make another bullpen addition" and named former Blue Jay Seranthony Domínguez and former Brave Tyler Kinley as ones to watch. Domínguez is arguably the best free agent reliever still left on the market, and Kinley was a surprisingly effective trade deadline addition for Atlanta. The rest of his less-than-impressive career, mostly spent with the Rockies, could make him exactly the kind of bargain option the Tigers love.

Ken Rosenthal connects Tigers to relievers Seranthony Domínguez, Tyler Kinley

Domínguez split his 2025 season between the Orioles and Blue Jays, pitching to a 3.16 ERA across 62 2/3 innings. He has far more postseason experience than anyone in the Tigers bullpen except Jansen, and outside of a couple shaky appearances against the Mariners this season, his record is almost spotless.

Kinley had a 5.05 ERA in six seasons with the Rockies but turned around and became one of the Braves' most valuable bullpen arms in very short order after the deadline — 0.72 ERA over 25 innings. His 1.3 bWAR tied him with closer Raisel Iglesias, and in far fewer innings. Maybe all he needed was to get away from Coors Field.

Underwhelming or not, we'll allow that the Tigers' bullpen is in a better place than where they left it at the end of 2025. Any combination of Vest-Finnegan-Jansen will be exciting to watch in late innings this year, but one more righty to take Keider Montero's spot in the bullpen would lend even more reassurance. Domínguez might end up costing more than the Tigers want to pay (which, evidently, isn't a lot), but Kinley could be right up their alley.