DETROIT -- Brett Cecil, owner of 11 career saves, will make $7.75 million in each of the next three seasons on the four-year, $30.5 million contract he signed with the Cardinals on Monday. Francisco Rodriguez, if he isn't traded, is set to be the highest-paid member of the Tigers' bullpen with a $6 million salary for 2017, depending on what Detroit does with starters Anibal Sanchez and Mike Pelfrey.
That comparison says a lot about where the Tigers and the bullpen market are headed. They're not going in the same direction.