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Detroit Tigers Newsletter: When 'Skubal and Mize and hope for wet skies' isn't enough

So, when, exactly, do we start worrying about the Detroit Tigers’ rotation?

Remember the Opening Day rotation? Matthew Boyd, followed by Julio Teheran (remember him?), Tarik Skubal, Jose Urena and Casey Mize, with Spencer Turnbull on the way and Michael Fulmer waiting in middle relief in case a spot opened up. It wasn’t quite the days of Verlander, Scherzer, Porcello, Price and Sanchez, but it seemed deep enough. That lasted just one turn through the rotation.

And now, 93 games later, it’s “Skubal and Mize and pray for wet skies.”

OK, that’s not really fair to Wily Peralta, who has a 0.