Brand new Orioles closer Ryan Helsley confirmed that the Tigers were "in on [him] heavy" before he took a two-year, $28 million contract with Baltimore. Detroit wanted to convert him into a starter, a bizarre move for a team with an ostensibly full rotation but a bullpen in need of a lot of work. Helsley was open to it but ultimately opted to stay a reliever.
Maybe it's Chris Fetter looking for a new challenge, or the Tigers wanting to cut corners with payroll by being the next in a growing number of teams to undertake the reliever-to-starter experiment, but it seems like they might not be letting the idea go just because they missed on Helsley.