Let’s get this out of the way right now: if the Detroit Tigers trade Tarik Skubal at the 2025 Winter Meetings, it won’t just sting. It will be the kind of pain that lives in the bones of a fanbase for decades. It would be the single most avoidable, self-inflicted wound of the Scott Harris era — and for a franchise with a long list of “what were they thinking?” decisions, that’s saying something.
Every team in baseball wants to trade for Skubal. Of course they do. He just finished a season where he looked like the best pitcher on planet earth.