Let’s just get this out of the way: Tarik Skubal winning his second straight American League Cy Young Award is one of the most incredible, cathartic, long-overdue moments in modern Detroit Tigers history.
The homegrown ace who carried a rebuilding franchise back into the national conversation, Skubal is everything Detroit fans have been waiting for since Justin Verlander. And yet, as that trophy hits the shelf, there's one person smiling even wider than Skubal himself –– his agent, Scott Boras.
You could feel it the second the award was announced, with Skubal earning a remarkable 26 of 30 first-place votes.