Report: Red Sox made multi-year offer to E-Rod, Tigers showing early interest
The Boston Red Sox are attempting to retain Eduardo Rodriguez through multiple means, but the left-hander's market seems to be heating up quickly.
The Red Sox offered E-Rod a multi-year deal while the pending free agent continues to mull whether to accept his one-year, $18.4-million qualifying offer from the club, according to Jon Heyman of MLB Network.
Details of the offer aren't known. Rodriguez, 28, has until Nov. 17 to accept the qualifying offer. He'll become a free agent if he declines it, but Boston will receive draft-pick compensation if he signs elsewhere.
Despite not yet deciding on the qualifying offer, Rodriguez is already drawing early interest from the Detroit Tigers, according to Jon Morosi of MLB Network.
The southpaw posted a 4.74 ERA and 3.32 FIP over 157 2/3 innings this past season after missing the entire 2020 campaign with myocarditis caused by COVID-19. Rodriguez owns a career 4.16 ERA and 3.74 FIP across six seasons, averaging more than 140 innings per year.
The Tigers have a young rotation that ranked 10th in the AL by FanGraphs WAR last campaign and cumulatively put up a 4.17 ERA and 4.66 FIP. Detroit finished third in a relatively non-competitive AL Central, winning 77 games.