Arbitration hearings are built to be uncomfortable. The problem is the Tigers picked the worst possible player for one.
The most interesting part of the Tarik Skubal arbitration fight isn’t the dollar gap. You already know the numbers. The real story is that both sides think the other is trying to rewrite the rules.
That’s the core tension in Ken Rosenthal’s piece: the Tigers believe Skubal’s ask is so aggressive it ignores how arbitration has historically worked.