Second baseman Gleyber Torres has accepted the Tigers qualifying offer and will return for the 2026 season at $22 million for the year. This was always the likely outcome, so hopefully the Tigers anticipated this and really wanted him back for 2026.

The soon-to-be 29-year-old infielder is coming off a season that held a lot of potential for him in free agency, only for a hernia to spoil much of the second half as his power and defensive numbers declined. Probably he would have had plenty of interest as a free agent, but he’s also too limited a player for teams to be willing to give up a draft pick to sign him, which would have limited his market signficantly.

So for Torres this is a pretty smart decision. He would clearly like to land a long-term contract somewhere, but he wasn’t going t

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