SARASOTA, Fla. — Let’s be honest. This is where Chris Tillman needed to be all along.
For all the speculation about the Twins and Tigers and whoever, there was never a good reason for him to go anywhere else.
Major league or minor league deal? Who cares. Base salary of $2 million or $4 million. So what?
Tillman finally agreed to a one-year deal with the reported base salary of $3 million and a raft of incentives, which is right in the middle of the range of the projections that have been floating around for weeks.