Scott Harris on Tarik Skubal’s future: “I can’t comment on our players being traded. I can’t comment on free agents. I can’t comment on other team’s players. I’m going to respond by just not actually commenting on it.”

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  1. I’m not exactly sure what people want him to say? For organizational flexibility they need to be open to multiple options, and saying they want to go one way or another limits their bargaining power.

  2. God help me if he gets traded. I don’t care about any justification for that. You don’t trade him. You pay him.

  4. There also may be a tampering aspect no? Until World Series is concluded, no one is able to talk to pending FA. And openly stating you’re trading him now could run afoul of the tampering?

  5. Harris and Hinch can only go as far as Ilitch will let them go. Still think they are the right people for the jobs, but ownership’s willingness to spend will be the ultimate factor here.

  6. Things would be so much easier if there was just a salary cap and a max contract players could sign. Boras knows that no matter what the tigers offer him the dodgers, Mets, or Yankees will just offer more. Unless Skubal goes to Boras and directly says make me a tiger long term, right now, we all know he’s going to free agency and most likely leave.

  8. Just a reminder to you all: He is literally prevented by the MLBPA from making these kinds of comments. He’s not deflecting

  9. “We love Tarik Skubal. He is everything we look for in a player and exemplifies what it means to be a Detroit Tiger. We obviously would love to have him here.”

    It’s not hard Scott. You just need to use your words.

  10. What’s to comment on

    They aren’t going to trade him in the off season

    It’s unlikely they extend him at 40 million

    And we will prob be in first place in July so they can’t trade him then

    Good times being a feeder program for real teams.

  11. I imagine Harris is gonna offer Skub as much as Illitch will allow, be on the lookout for trade offers that blow him away, and otherwise keep him for another playoff run. I feel like everyone is putting pressure on him to announce a decision or something, but obviously makes sense for the Tigs to just see how the situation plays out.

  12. Lol I love how he said “every time I’m asked to comment on this they take a snippet of what I say and use it for clips and speculation.” Then he went on to say these are the types of situations I can’t comment on. Then listed all of them.

  13. Would have been very easy to say, “We love Tarik and, fortunately for him, everyone in the league knows he’s a world class pitcher. We’re going to do everything in our capacity to make sure he’s a Tiger for life and the cornerstone for our future.”

    Instead it’s all this other gobbledygook? Like, it’s a bad look by Harris imo

  14. lot of questions wasted on this and deadline instead of focusing on what they want to do in coming offseason. I know he mentioned internal growth and young guys does that mean no additions to lineup external??

  15. I remember when they extended Miggy and Vmart. They spoke openly about how it was a thing they were interested in doing.

  16. I don’t want to trade Skubal. I want him to be a Tiger for life. But, if he’s not going to stay long term, trading him before next season really makes the most sense. We are two seasons away from Clark and McGonigle really bolstering the lineup. We don’t have Jobe next year. In the current iteration of our rebuild timeline, two seasons from now really looks like when we go all in.

    Again, my preference is we sign Skubal long term and bolster the team this off-season. But if it’s not happening, the best plan B is to go all in on 2027 and use Skubal to get additional assets to make that team a title contender.

  19. So, is he going to comment on anything or what? His quotes are unclear. Could go either way.

  21. And of course it’s this guy with the combative, shit stirring framing. He should just drop the “journalist” farce already and join up with Ben Verlander so he can make riding/egging on waves of fan outrage his full job.

  24. It’s because Harris knows there not even in the ballpark what a offer would take the number has gone up from what you that it was. The best case is to trade him you can’t risk the chance of injury

  27. I think the only way for the Tigers to keep Skubal after 2026 is for them to win the World Series

  28. Bullshit reporting for Petzold.

    Harris said the quote, but he prefaced it by saying that he cannot talk about these situations because media will chop up his statements and make general assumptions. And then he finished the statement by saying that “Tarik is a Tiger. I hope he wins the Cy Young, and we’re lucky to have him.”

    So basically nothing to be gleamed out of the whole statement.

    He also went on to say that he has no concerns about Illitch financially, and that Illitch being able to pony up cash was one of the reasons he left the Giants to come to Detroit.

    So I guess we’ll see.

  30. I think Skubal put himself on pitch count this season to make sure he’s healthy for his huge pay day. For me that is his prerogative. I fully expect him to do so even more this year just to get to his contract. That explains why he only went 99 pitches even in a win or go home situation. He doesn’t have the Scherzer and Verlander killer mentality which is probably why I won’t be upset if he gets traded for a good return.

  34. what bullshit,this tweet is pure fabrication and engagement bait, this is why i never go on “X”

  35. Im really torn on this . We are in a strange situation . We are a contending team . Pretty young up and coming still . Teams in our position arent normally about to lose their superstar . In general im against the huge pitching contracts . They so rarely work out benefically in the long term for the team . Sure their are exceptions but for every verlander scherzer and even gerrit cole despite tj this year has probably been worth it , There are a dozen strasburgs wheelers and degroms (i know hes good when hes not hurt but man hes hurt alot ) .

    Realistically i dont think we can expect to go much over 200 to 220 peak payroll for this iteration of the team . We sit at about 150 right now with 10 m of it skubals arbitration another 30m cobb and torres that fall off this year . So roughly 110m going in . If you give skubal 40 to 50m a year for what 6 to 8 years maybe a modest extension to greene and tork and you are probably in the 180 to 190 range . At that point you havent replaced torres or made a single improvement to the team . The longer we wait to lock up green the better chance we are having this same conversation about him in 4 or 5 years .

    All that said there is no version of this where we trade skubal and get better in 2026 . Its gonna be 2027 before jobe can take on a full innings load and hes not exactly proven . We have Flaherty for another year ..now maybe we are counting on mcgonigle to come.make a.big impact ( i think i believe that ) but hes not a pitcher . He can probably take over for torres next year at some point . At least i think thats the plan .

    I dont know how this ends but it sucks . Baseball salaries and.no salary cap is really an issue in this.era of baseball . It was the yankees and redsox and now the dodgers an mets have made even those deep pocketed teams start paying closer attention to what they spend .

    Id love to see skubal back ona reasonable deal 5x 200? But i am 100 percent against paying him 40 to.50m when hes 38 39 40 years old . We.dont need anymore.prospects we need young controllable star upside talent thats ready to produce .

    Any ideas ?

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