We've already learned that any smoke coming out about the Detroit Tigers' contract negotiations with Tarik Skubal needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but now we can hear straight from the horse's mouth that a lot of this stuff is warped, if not flat-out untrue.
Skubal appeared on Foul Territory and set the record straight. Maybe. The Tigers ace made it clear that he expects to play in Detroit in 2026, but more importantly, he dropped some interesting nuggets about the numbers we've seen bandied about so far.
"There's not a lot of fact or truth behind any of these things, especially even contract stuff.