Nashville — General manager Al Avila didn’t sugarcoat the Tigers’ signing of right-hander Mike Pelfrey.
“I’m not going to argue the numbers, he didn’t have the best numbers in the world,” Avila said Sunday night after making the two-year, $16 million deal official. “Our analytics guys, I am not going to throw them under the bus. This isn’t an analytics signing; it’s a scout signing.
“We feel the ability is still there. We feel the comeback potential is still there.”
Pelfrey, who will be 32 next month, was 6-11 with a 4.26 ERA and a 1.