All the buzz from MLB’s winter meetings

Tony Paul of The Detroit News provides regular updates from baseball’s winter meetings in San Diego.

Lester and his agents could say yes to the first team to bump up the money or offer the seventh year.

Boston is known to never want to go more than five years, but might make an exception to bring back the pitcher they dealt away to Oakland at last year’s trade deadline.

One seriously interested observer in all this is Max Scherzer, who’s looking for $180 million or more after turning down the Tigers’ $144-million offer last spring.

How much more than Lester can Scherzer realistically demand, given some actually consider Lester the superior pitcher, if not the more dominant? Marlins lose final piece of trade with Tigers — 2:45 Eastern The Tigers were fine facing Brandon Moss a couple series a year.

There’s not a bunch of Tigers buzz at the moment — there usually isn’t until the winter meetings are a day or two old anyway — but other teams in the American League Central are creating some headlines.

As for the White Sox, there have been reports they are interested in closer David Robertson, who wants four years and $50 million, and A’s starter Jeff Samardzija.

Stay tuned to The Detroit News all week for the latest buzz from the Tigers, and around the league.