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Jack Flaherty, Tigers have 2-year, $35 million deal, sources say - ESPN

Right-hander Jack Flaherty and the Detroit Tigers are in agreement on a two-year, $35 million contract, sources told ESPN on Sunday, reuniting one of the best remaining free agents and the team with which he resurrected his career last season.

The deal, which is pending a physical, includes an opt-out after this year, in which Detroit will pay Flaherty $25 million. The second year guarantees Flaherty $10 million and can be worth $20 million if he starts at least 15 games.

As free agency entered its fourth month, with the long-term-contract market for the 29-year-old Flaherty never having developed, he went back to a familiar place with the Tigers, who gave him $14 million last winter. The $25 million salary this year is among the 10 highest for starting pitchers in 2025.

Flaherty's numbers warranted a jump into that strata. In Detroit, he started 18 games and posted a 2.95 ERA and nearly a 7-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired Flaherty minutes before the trade deadline and saw him throw the most postseason innings of any of their pitchers en route to a World Series win.

The best of Flaherty's playoff performances with the Dodgers earned some attention around the league as he accomplished what he set out to do last offseason: re-establish himself after injuries and ineffectiveness slowed down what looked like a top-of-the-rotation track.

Flaherty threw 151 innings of 3.34 ERA ball as a rookie in 2018 and followed with a fourth-place Cy Young performance when he was the best pitcher in baseball during the second half of 2019. Injuries waylaid Flaherty in 2021 and 2022, and when he returned in 2023, he was still toying with a cutter and figuring out his pitch mix.

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