October 17th: Evan Petzold of The Detroit Free Press reports that Detroit’s offer after 2024 was for four years and less than $100MM. October 16th: The Tigers are now down to their final season of control over the American League’s best pitcher. Tarik Skubal is entering his last year of arbitration and trending towards the largest pitching contract in history …
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The Tigers and superstar pitcher Tarik Skubal have a lot of work to do if they’re going to bridge quite possibly the biggest gap in MLB negotiating history: an estimated quarter of a billion dollars. Yep, that’s not a misprint. It’s close to $250 million. Word is, a year ago the Tigers offered Skubal well less than the $170M deal …
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A sleepless night in Seattle will be followed by many more in the Motor City, as the Detroit Tigers will spend the long winter wondering what they could have done differently to save their season. But concerning one of their most questionable choices of the season, manager AJ Hinch isn’t giving it a second thought. The Tigers’ skipper said it was …
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Facing the best pitcher in the world over the past 24 months is not ideal when faced with a winner-take-all game. That’s the situation the Seattle Mariners are in, however, with Tarik Skubal on the hill Friday. This will be their fourth matchup against the Detroit Tigers’ ace, needing to find a way to go 4-0 in those games. Skubal’s …
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The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 MLB Wild Card series. CLEVELAND — Tarik Skubal is from Hayward, Calif., and grew up in Kingman, Ariz. The population in Kingman is 35,383. Skubal played high-school baseball in a division so small Kingman Academy faced its own JV team for the state championship two different times. Skubal went on to attend …
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Happy Wild Card Day — one of the coolest days in North American sports. I don’t know how you spent your day Tuesday. But I know how I spent mine … by watching postseason baseball for 11 hours and eight minutes, just so you didn’t have to. I was paying rapt attention when Parker Meadows’ fly ball to center kicked …
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Tigers ace Tarik Skubal hitched a ride with Guardians manager Stephen Vogt to visit David Fry after he was hit in the face with a pitch attempting to bunt. The scary moment during Tuesday night’s 5-2 Guardians win stopped a crucial AL Central contest in its tracks during the sixth inning when Skubal threw a 99 mph fastball that connected …
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CLEVELAND — In the middle of a tense division race, Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal accompanied Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt to check on an injured opponent. Skubal visited David Fry in the hospital late Tuesday night, hours after his fastball struck Fry in the face during a bunt attempt. It was a striking show of solidarity among players and …
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Stephen Vogt’s second season as a big-league manager has already been marked by plenty of challenges, but on Tuesday night he added a new line to his résumé: chauffeur. After David Fry was struck in the face by a 99 mph fastball from Tarik Skubal, suffering multiple facial fractures and spending the night at Cleveland Clinic, Vogt …
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Cleveland’s magical run continued Tuesday night, as the Guardians rallied to beat Tarik Skubal and the Detroit Tigers 5-2 and forge a tie for first place in the AL Central. The Guardians (85-72) have won 11 of their last 12 games and 16 of their last 18, erasing the 10-game lead that Detroit held as recently as Sept. 6. The …
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