Tigers Trying To Avoid Closer-By-Committee

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Tigers manager Jim Leyland doesn't want the team to use a committee to close games this season.

"I doubt if that's going to happen here," Leyland said Sunday morning. "I think we'll have a closer, and we'll have one or two other guys that would be capable of closing a game if the closer needed a day off."

Brandon Lyon and Fernando Rodney are the leading candidates to be the team's closer this season.

Via Detroit Free Press

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