Report: Tigers In 'Serious Talks' With Free Agent SP Jordan Zimmermann
By Dan Jenkins
@DanTJenkins
The Detroit Tigers are using free agency to hunt down starting pitchers to improve what became a struggling rotation in 2015.
Jordan Zimmermann would go a long way to help that cause.
Reports surfaced late Saturday night that the Tigers and Zimmermann have begun "serious talks" about the right-hander signing with Detroit.
#Tigers in discussions with Jordan Zimmermann, sources tell @ken_rosenthal and me, with multiple people saying talks have become serious.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) November 29, 2015
The 29-year-old has spent his entire seven-year career with the Washington Nationals. He was selected as an All-Star in 2013 and 2014.
Zimmermann posted a 13-10 record, a 3.66 ERA and 164 strikeouts in 201 1/3 innings in 2015.
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