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The Detroit Tigers and ace Justin Verlander have come to an agreement on a new five year, 80 million dollar contract extension.

This will insure that Verlander will remain a part of teh Tigers organization until 2014. It will also cover his final two years of arbitration, and barring a trade Verlander will pitch his entire career in Detroit.

The Chicago White Sox claimed Alex Rios off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays. This is the latest attempt by the Jays to dump salary.

While they held out for a big time deal for Pitcher Roy Halladay, a deal that was never completed the Jays have no lost Rios and get nothing in return.

Nothing except for getting out from underneath Rios' 60 million dollar contract.