Octavio Dotel

MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reports that Octavio Dotel will earn around $3.5 million in his new contract with the Tigers.

Dotel will reportedly receive a one-year deal with an option for 2013. The 38-year-old right-hander posted a 3.50 ERA and 62/17 K/BB ratio over 54 frames between Toronto and St. Louis this past season. He’ll function as a set-up man for the defending AL Champions in 2012.

MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reports that the Tigers and Octavio Dotel have agreed to a one-year deal with an option for 2013.

Exact terms aren’t yet available. Dotel, 38, posted a 3.50 ERA and 62/17 K/BB ratio over 54 innings this past season between the Blue Jays and Cardinals. He’ll function as a set-up man for Jose Valverde in 2012.

Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports.com reports that Octavio Dotel’s potential deal with the Tigers is expected to be for one year and include an option.

The financials of the deal aren’t known yet, but it appears that it’s merely about dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s at this point. Dotel held a 3.50 ERA and 62/17 K/BB ratio over 54 frames this past season. The 38-year-old will help set up for closer Jose Valverde.

Danny Kobler of CBSSports.com reports that the Tigers are “closing in” on free agent reliever Octavio Dotel.

Dotel was down to the Tigers and Cardinals, and although he appeared to prefer to stay in St. Louis, it sounds like Detroit simply offered him more money. The 38-year-old held a 3.50 ERA and 62/17 K/BB ratio over 54 frames this past season. He’ll help set up for closer Jose Valverde.

Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that free agent reliever Octavio Dotel has narrowed his choices to the Tigers and Cardinals.

Strauss agrees with others that say the Tigers are the favorites, but he says Dotel “remains enamored” with St. Louis. Perhaps if Albert Pujols, who developed a friendship with Dotel during the reliever’s time with the Cardinals, re-signs, that might be enough to tip the scales in the Cards’ favor. The Tigers are likely offering the 38-year-old more money.

Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the Tigers are the favorites to land free agent reliever Octavio Dotel.

Rosenthal notes that a National League team is still in the running, which makes since given that the Cardinals, Reds and Brewers have been viewed as the other competitors for his services. It sounds like he might be headed to Motown to help set up for Jose Valverde, though.