If you’re a Detroit Tigers fan, the 2025 Winter Meetings aren’t fun. They aren’t exciting. They aren’t the annual dose of hot-stove adrenaline they’re supposed to be. No — they’ve turned into a three-day stress test engineered in a laboratory to see how many times one fanbase can have its heart rate spike over the same rumor.
And the culprit, as always, is Tarik Skubal –– the ace, the franchise face, the back-to-back Cy Young winner, the one player in Detroit that you absolutely do not want to see wearing Dodger blue.
Thanks to one local Los Angeles reporter and his so-called "sources," Detroit's offseason has turned into a soap opera.