The veteran right-hander has signed a one-year deal with the Tigers in free agency worth $7.75 million, per Jeff Passan of ESPN. Jon Heyman of the New York Post was first to report that the Tigers were close to a deal with Kahnle on Wednesday afternoon.

Another former Shaker High School pitcher is on the move during this Major League Baseball offseason. Tommy Kahnle, a 2007 Shaker graduate, signed Wednesday with the Detroit Tigers after spending the past two seasons in the bullpen of the New York Yankees.

There had been mutual interest in yet another reunion with the Yankees earlier this winter, a source had said, but an expensive offseason and an eye on the $301 million CBT threshold likely