The Tigers Options With Tarik Skubal | Karsch and Anderson

The Tigers Options With Tarik Skubal | Karsch and Anderson

Well, look, I uh as I like to say, it’s not a Detroit story. It’s a national story. 2485399797. I want to say this about all the reporting as it pertains to Scooble and the contract and the negotiations, etc., etc. I take it all with a bit of a grain of salt. Two weeks ago, Bob Nangel reported that the Tigers and AJ Hinch held off on a contract because they didn’t think it was a good time to go public with it. The reality was he was signed months prior to that. They could have announced it in the middle of the season, but you know, so you always when it comes to these contracts and stuff, I I’m a little okay, it’s interesting, but I’m not I I don’t take it all verbatim. Um, but you know, I mean, it is a it is a topic. And what one thing I would love to do, I was thinking about during the break. Oh my god, I was wrong. I want to say this. I want to say the following. Oh my god, I was wrong. The Tigers have resigned Teroo. I want to say that um I’m I’m pretty convinced that with Boris as his agent and the enthusiasm to have TK Scuba on the roster, which we’ll play some of it for you coming out of one major market is uh is going to be hard for the Tigers to overcome. And can they trade him? I mean, at this point, I think that’s the best case scenario is to try and trade him for major league ready guys that can help now that are good. Well, I I think there there’s the ability for the Tigers to get creative when it comes to hanging on to Scooble. Uh Georgia just came in the studio. We’re talking during the break. I actually love his idea. And it’s a six-year offer to Scooble. It’s like a six-year $240 million offer, which is 40 a year, but there’s an opt out after four years. So, you can frontload those first four years. You want to make those first four years 45 million each year or 50 million each year, whatever you want to do, go ahead and do it. And then there’s an opt out after the fourth. If Scooble pitches anywhere close to how he’s pitched the last couple seasons for the next four years, he’ll of course opt out and and hit free agency, but he’ll have kept this window open with this current group of Tigers for four more seasons. Um, and, you know, gets the team an opportunity to to still do what they’re going to do afterward. I that that’s that’s great fine and dandy. I think if you go take if if school if the Tigers make that offer, Boris goes to New York and says, “Will you do 50 million a year?” And they say yes. So I I look I I’m I hate you. Am I wrong? No. [Music] You hate reality then. Well, I hate people. No, you don’t. You strongly dislike people most. The word hate gets thrown around too much. We agree on that. And we we Fair enough. Yeah, we try. I’m going to dash my hopes and dreams. I thought Jimmy and I were solving all the world’s problems here and then you come up and and say dose of reality. Um, wouldn’t New York do the same thing? Shut up. Of course they would. Of course. Yes. But he could stay here for four years and go to New York afterward. He could stay here with this team, this team that that he loves, right? This team that he’s fought with and, you know, bled and sweat with for the next for the last couple years in the playoffs. Come on. this team, these guys, this rag town. Your guys. Your guys. These are your guys. T, come on. You own this town. Let’s go to Frank in Clinton Township. Hi, Frank. Hey, how’s it going? What’s up? I wanted to talk about the uh Jared Goff uh touchdown reception on Monday night. I don’t think or Sunday night, I’m sorry. I don’t think the NFL is doing itself any favors with the way they’re handling this situation. I mean, right now, the Lions are the greatest show on turf. I mean, they are very exciting to watch. I don’t think the rest of the world, there’s a lot of bad football out there. I don’t think the rest of the world wants to see the Saints and the Ravens or the Raiders, the Jets and the Dolphins slug it out for six to three games. They love seeing what the Lions are bringing to the table. I don’t think they care that had he lined up in the shotgun as opposed to under center, it would have been legal. I I just think they’re, you know, they’re they’re ruining the game by putting in all these rules and uh well, you know, it’s just it’s so picky. It’s I don’t think if they drop the flag immediately, Frank, if they drop the flag immediately and said this is an illegal shift, quarterback if as established as a quarterback under center cannot move without backing up and setting for one second and they drop the flag immediately as as penalties are are routinely enforced, I think we all would have been good with it. It’s the fact that it’s possible that a non-reviewable play got buzzed in by the league office that is the issue. And so, look, you know, it’s it’s as Greg Greg Harray from the morning show is so freaking smart and he put it perfectly off the air to King a couple days ago when he said it’s like in inadmissible evidence in court and you know, you can’t there was no search warrant. Well, it’s it’s immediately after the the play they’re celebrating and the the rules official who’s up in the booth with the guys doing the broadcast, he points it out right away, which tells you that the officials on the field should have done it right away, but they didn’t. Yeah, that that’s why that’s why it’s it’s painfully obvious that someone from the NFL, either there at the stadium or in New York, inform them that you have to call a penalty on this. It’s an illegal formation and it took him 74 seconds after the play. Right. Right. Let Let the players play. I didn’t even see the Chiefs arguing about it. They they had no idea. It’s No, it’s just like a technicality like the fine print. Let let players decide the game. Well, if you even if you violate fine print, throw the flag. Yeah, throw the flag. No issue with throw flag. But you didn’t throw a flag. Uh let’s go to Kevin and St. Clair. You’re next on 971 a ticket. Hi Kevin. Naria flag was thrown. Hey to you all. Hey Kevin. Hey Kev. Hi guys. Uh Doug, I’m with you. Uh shortterm big money. Uh, Gator, I love your idea that you came up with in the break, too. But I’m going 5 years, 250 or 6 years, including next year, and if he doesn’t want it, I’m trading him because Boris is taking him to free agency. There’s no doubt about that. So, you’re going to go 50 million negotiating against I guess 50 for five or six and and then throw it in his court and see what he’s going to do. I don’t hate Here’s the problem is is literally Kevin, you liked my idea and Gator, you could have thrown my argument back at me. My, you know, hey, shorter term but massive amounts of money. He could just take the same contract to New York or Boston or Chicago and say, can you top this? And the Dodgers, they’d say, yeah. And so, you know, it’s just it feels like they I hope that they try and I hope that they try very hard within reason. Uh but I’m I’m skeptical that he would agree to Let me bring up this point. Please do. Okay. Terrace Scubble is still Detroit property for all of next season. Correct. Correct. Now is the time for the Tigers to make an offer to him because, correct me if I’m wrong, Scott Boris can’t take this the Tigers number over to New York or to LA and have them negotiate. That would be illegal tampering. Yes, he can’t. Right. So, so now is the only time. The only thing Scott Boris can say to Terco is, “Hey, man. I think you can get more from on the open market if you get there. But but he can’t negotiate. He can’t negotiate yet. This is their only hope. And that’s why And that’s why right now is the time to do it. You’re exactly right. $250 million, whatever, whatever works. Five years, six years, whatever, whatever the number is. Five or six. I’m not going more than that. $50 million per season. Yes or no? If he says no, then you trade. You got to trade it. Yeah. Kevin, thank you for the phone call. I think it’s I I like those. Are those parameters okay, K? Yeah. I mean, I always find it funny when talking about contracts with with fans. It’s like, yeah, I’d do that. Oh, really? Cool. Now you got to get Scooball to do that, you know? And but you’re saying it with you’re you’re thinking that is that a number that’s good enough for Scooble good? Is it is it too painful for the Tigers to accept or is it that’s the threshold? If you believe the John Haymon report is accurate, then it’s not good enough because the report is 5 years 250 and they want 500 million in 10 years, right? So that’s the that’s the report. Well, I don’t know if Heymon said that the Tigers offered five and 250. Did he? Did I miss that? Well, that isn’t that the gap we’re talking about? Well, they said there’s a $250 million gap, but he might want if he’s comparing last year’s $100 million offer and they have a they want $350 million. That would I think what Haymon said was he expected it to be a near $400 million contract total. Yeah, dude. This is I you know I I feel like there’s a way out of this cuz the Tigers aren’t in the business of keeping TKU at at all costs. They’re in the business of winning the World Series. Correct. If you cash that chip in and get good players in return, the question is, can you find a trade partner that’s going to trade you major league ready assets or major league established good players because there’s the team that’s trading for school is trying to win the World Series 2, right? So when you know when people called about when the when the ti when people called about the Tigers prospects or when the Tigers called about sorry let me invert this. When Scott Harris called about getting somebody’s closer or starter or bat, if somebody said in in response, “Yeah, we want Riley Green,” the Tigers say, “Well, we need Riley Green. We’re trading for because we’re trying to win a World Series.” Any team trading for schools in the same position. The Tigers are going to want people that are good major league players now, and that team’s also trying to win. So, it’s hard to find a trading partner, but there’s some enthusiasm. And I want to play this coming out of you from one major market. We’ll do that today at 11:20. uh what they’re saying about this news today regarding Scooble and a a what appears to be a large gap as it stands between an old offer and what he wants now. Um we’ll get to that coming up today at 11:20.

Doug and Gator go through what options the Tigers really have with starting pitcher Tarik Skubal. #tigers #mlb

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