play video DET@TOR: Benoit shuts door on sixth save in ninth Facebook Twitter Email TORONTO -- Joaquin Benoit has never campaigned for the Tigers' closer job. Even when he said time and again that a team needed a set closer, he never said it should be him. That's not his style. Even now, two weeks into his role as Tigers closer, it's not entirely clear it's a job he craves so much as the job he has earned. Yet on the field, he's not doing anything to discourage the current notion that he can close, a theory that the Tigers were finally led into testing out. "I really just wanted to be a part of the [pitching] lineup," Benoit said of his younger aspirations. "I didn't pick a role. I mean, I...
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