18:42: The Tigers announced the signing.
15:40: The two sides have a two-year, $ 10 million deal, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. Grossman could earn up to $ 500,000 a year in performance bonuses, by Stavenhagen.
15:39: Tigers are closing a two-year deal, $ 10 million, with free outfielder Robbie Grossman, The Athletic’s Cody Stavenhagen and Ken Rosenthal report. The pact will also include performance bonuses for Grossman, a Lagardere Sports customer.
Detroit will be Grossman’s fourth team, a sixth-round pick in 2008 who played for the big ones with the Astros, Twins and Athletics. Grossman played a small part of his career in Houston under AJ Hinch, who is now the captain of the Tigers.
Grossman and Hinch are meeting now, and the 31-year-old hitter will bring a lifetime 0.252 / 0.350 / 0.380 batting line with 50 home runs and 37 stolen bases in 2,748 plate appearances for his new team. Although Grossman has been an almost attacking midfielder in the league over the course of his career, he has not qualified as well on the field, where he combined for minus 19 saved defensive runs and minus-18.9 in the final zone ranking between the three positions .
The last season may have been a year of offensive career for Grossman, who hit 0.241 / .341 / .482 (126 wRC +), hit eight home runs and stole eight bases in 192 PA to complete his A term. Most Grossman’s season was spent on the left field, where the Tigers stood out mainly Christin Stewart in 2020. But Stewart and the primary right defender Daz Cameron had difficult years, leaving Tigers with a need in the corners. The hope is that Grossman will provide this, and his track record of reaching the base suggests he will improve on an attack that featured the league’s third worst OBP (0.303) last season.