That’s true.
It’s also a reason why trading him now for the right price could be the winning decision. What will the future bring?
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Wouldn’t the comprise be a 5 yr plus team option for yr 6?
It might not even be so much about years but total value of the deal. For example 5 years 250 million vs 8 years 320. One deal is 10 mill more per season but the other deal is 70 million more fully guaranteed. Pitchers get hurt all the time so getting the highest total value makes a lot sense.
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I think the Tigers are all in this year and he goes nowhere.
Exception is if the team is out of playoffs by deadline then yea they trade him.
Skubal will be 30 yrs old going into the 2027 season, with 2 TJ surgeries in his past. Guy is electric and i would love, prefer, to see him stay in Detroit, but I understand why the Tigers could sit this one out, and it isn’t that Ilitch is cheap. I’ve never bought that take, it’s lazy.
It’s a lot of risk to take for an older pitcher, which is why he was able to use that rare clause in his arbitration hearing to his benefit. Kudo’s to Boras and MLPLA for taking advantage of it, it was smart on their part.
So, you wait til July and see what the team looks like heading towards July 31 and then you make moves if still in the hunt. You have plenty of prospects to trade for the position of need and some 40man roster talent as well. Make the call at the deadline if still in the hunt or leading the central you make amove or three, if not, you trade him then.
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That makes perfect sense to me.
5/250 is fine. Elite starters hold their Nasty through age 34/35 more often than lose it, if you look at the generations starting with Maddux/Clemens/Unit through to "CC/JV/Scherzer/Kershaw. Even guys next step down (Wheeler/Schilling/Sale/Mussina etc) have a good shot at age 35 being pretty prime-ish
He wants more years? lower AAV.
I think it’s 67/33 he re-ups with Detroit. When? Probably after the season in FA.
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A salary cap could dry up the market for Skubal. Suddenly, the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets wouldn’t be able to spend freely.
Tigers could be using that with him, and see who blinks first.
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Thats why Borris is refusing to agree to ANY deal thats not 6-8 years and 50+aav.
Because he could get that from a big spending team. (ny la phi)
What the tigers are offering is probably decent. However with a salary cap in the future. Probably about what market value will be.
So why not hold out and try to get traded and signed before the cap hits?
Its annoying but yea both sides are playing the game. And both sides know. Yea theres gonna be a lock out fallowed by a cap.
There will definitely be a lockout, not so convinced a hard cap is coming though. Maybe a salary floor and higher taxes for big spending teams. But I have serious doubt a hard cap comes in.
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If the NFL can get a cap what makes you believe a less popular and less profitable sport can’t. Skubal used comparisons, so will I. This would indicate really weak ownership to me.
Unfortunately I think you are right. A salary floor or more taxes I think does little to help the competitive balance unless the taxes go way up. The Dodgers paid more in taxes last year than the entire payroll of 13 clubs. Didn’t stop them from spending again. According to this Dodger’s revenue is more than twice what the Tigers is. The Tigers are 11th in team payroll and are still spend less than 60% of what the Dodgers spend.
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One of the reasons the cap is gonna be so tough is the super teams like the Dodgers are making MLB so much money. Not just in North America but overseas in Japan and South Korea. The big market teams are getting all the ratings and making the game popular overseas. MLB is very aware of the 7 to 10 teams bringing in most of the money for the league.
The players union sure doesn’t want a cap. It’s basically the cheap owners vs the rich owners and players. It’s gonna get real ugly. I wouldn’t even be surprised there is no baseball in 2027.
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The MLB players union is very, very strong and will be very, very hard to break when it comes to a hard salary cap.
It’s a shame because the greed is blinding them to the fact their product is being destroyed. Baseball is dying, in big part because of not having a cap, and they could care less.
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Greed is the root of most evil
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Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise, no surprise they’re giving none away.
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Non-competitive league is not the way to go. When fan interest plummets for the majority of teams that is not a solution. The NFL has a hard cap and they make beaucoup d’argent.
Sure college football may go that way but they’re not employees and can do whatever they want.
Oh, btw, which one’s Pink? 