Tigers and Tarik Skubal are reportedly over $250 million apart in negotiations for an extension
October 16, 2025
Tigers and Tarik Skubal are reportedly over $250 million apart in negotiations for an extension
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They just need to trade him for a kings ransom and sign 2 starters in the off season.
This is going to be a fun thread.
It’s crazy that he wants $250 million less than what we’re offering…
/s
That’s gotta be a length based thing then. You don’t end up 250 million apart if your talking the same number of years
probably offered him like 5/250 and he wants 10/500
Good luck wherever you go, Tarik!
I hate boras. He’s bad for the market
hopefully they realize this generation needs their version of Verlander/Miggy and lock him up for 10 years.
This sub will be unbearable throughout this whole saga. Regardless of what happens lol
If they’re that far apart then it means that they’re disagreeing on the length of time, but that doesn’t make the maximum amount of people upset so this is the type of post we get
He gone
If there’s any real merit here I would assume it’s less about the money and more on the length.
Skubal extension talk is silly until next year.
My guess is the tigers want him around 5-7 years (34-36 when the contract expires). Boras wants him around 12 years (41 when the contract expires). The AAV will remain the same. The longer the contract, the bigger the number Boras can parade around.
If he contends for a 3rd Cy Young, and the Tigers are playoff relevant next year, I can see pizza boy backing up the Brinks truck. This will be the first time that we get to see how C.Illitch handles the situation and will provide a predictor for future stars.
Should we really trust the New York Post to have scooped literally everyone else?
Boys.
Give your nuts a tug and settle in. Maybe he stays and maybe he goes but until he does one pr the other this is all theater for negotiations.
So you’re telling me there’s a chance.gif…
It was fun while it lasted 🥲
Zoinks Skuub!
I’m glad this is out there now. We can either get a deal done or move on with a trade at the GM meetings. I suspect a trade market would be limited to teams that can afford his new contract.
Good luck to the idiot team that’s going to pay him $50 million a year for 7 to 10 years. I want to keep him as much as everybody else, but not at the term he wants.
To make Skubal the highest paid pitcher by AAV and total value, they’d need to offer something like $430m over 8 seasons.
I’m assuming they’re willing to go $180m over 4 seasons or something like that so he’s highest paid ever by annual dollar amount, but they don’t want the duration. If he does get 8 seasons, that would mean he’s under contract through his age 37 season I think.
After that game 5 early exit…. No Fuckin Way!
This seems like just clickbait news, Heyman reported that the Tigers offered around $170 mil a year ago and estimates that his baseline is now around $400 mil. No report on what the actual figures are now.
Headlines like this are just part of the negotiations. They only exist to put public pressure on the negotiation process.
I don’t think baseball needs a salary cap but I do think it needs a cap on length of contracts. Most players don’t hit FA till theyre about 30 and at that point they’re expecting 6,8 even 10 years on their contract
It’s pretty unlucky timing with the CBA set to expire in 2026 and rumors of a potential salary cap being a major talking point.
Love Skub but he will literally be 30 by the time he plays a game under this new contract. The real problem with salary is that he made 12 million for this year AND last year’s cy young worthy seasons, where you’d value him at what, like $80 million? Not gonna fault these guys for trying to get their bag after the value of their labor has passed, say he gets injured? Then you got a literal decade of 30+ mil AAV hanging around. But hey, that’s the gamble you make for staying in WS contention the next couple years. Really truly see both sides.
I would offer 6/255ish. Would prefer not to be tied to anyone for 10 years, especially someone that is close to 30. If he doesn’t want a 5 or 6 year deal, shop him in the offseason. Don’t let Boras hold us hostage and make it a bad deal by year 4 with 6 more remaining.
I’m sure the downvotes will flood this reply. But that’s what I’d like to see the front office do.
They’d better trade him. The simple fact is Boras is going to take him to free agency and we all know the Tigers won’t be the top bidder. What Harris does with Skubal will likely define his tenure here.
Trade him then
Paying him 10 years is dumb in my opinion how many pitchers pitch well into their 40s
Yeah I’m gonna wait to have independent verification on this, Heyman is basically just a Boras media mouthpiece.
This shouldn’t be surprising. Nobody starts a negotiation with as much as they’re willing to give or as little as they’re willing to take.
I don’t see how you sign Skubal to this amount of money helps the whole team. I get it, he’s the ace But we can’t win with just him. We prove that this year.
Dodgers are gonna do something stupid like 6 years 1.5 billion with 1.49 billion deferred.
Yep we’re fucked. Hope Skubal enjoys LA or New York
He gone
He’s a Boras client. It was always going to be this way. Boras probably asked for a billion dollars during the Soto negotiations.
I am also over $250 million apart in negotiations with my employer
Can’t believe there’s so many people against signing him long term to a record breaking deal.
Even if he sucks in the back half of the deal it would keep our window open for 5+ years. Those 5 years would coincide with the arrival of McGonigle, Clarke, etc., and there would be multiple years with Riley, Tork, Dingler etc all under team contract still.
We don’t even make the post season the last two years without him and people are worried about pizza boy finally opening the wallet when there isn’t a salary cap?
He might be the best pitcher of this generation of pitchers, we should not let him walk like we did with Scherzer.
Surprised it’s that close. I figure Boras wants around $500 million and Illich is offering 2 whole Hot n’ Readys.
I bet they’re in close-enough agreement on the first 4 years and disagreement about the next 4.
Agent will want raises on the backend to remain the top of the market and no one holds on to the top for that long.
I don’t want to give anyone a 10 year contract in their 30s. Especially one worth half a billion. The way he pitches won’t be even close to sustainable halfway through that contract. Extremely unlikely we’d get 4 years at this caliber and then we’d just be blowing payroll on another slightly above average starter.
Why have a franchise if you can’t pay your best player.
50M hot n ready’s apart
(I know they aren’t 5 anymore)
To be fair, me and my company are about the same number apart as well.
I’m sorry, but he’s not worth 10 years $500 million. No pitcher is. Maybe back in the day when they would go 7+ innings every start, but not now. Sucks, I don’t want him to leave but he’s gone.
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They just need to trade him for a kings ransom and sign 2 starters in the off season.
This is going to be a fun thread.
It’s crazy that he wants $250 million less than what we’re offering…
/s
That’s gotta be a length based thing then. You don’t end up 250 million apart if your talking the same number of years
probably offered him like 5/250 and he wants 10/500
Good luck wherever you go, Tarik!
I hate boras. He’s bad for the market
hopefully they realize this generation needs their version of Verlander/Miggy and lock him up for 10 years.
This sub will be unbearable throughout this whole saga. Regardless of what happens lol
If they’re that far apart then it means that they’re disagreeing on the length of time, but that doesn’t make the maximum amount of people upset so this is the type of post we get
He gone
If there’s any real merit here I would assume it’s less about the money and more on the length.
Skubal extension talk is silly until next year.
My guess is the tigers want him around 5-7 years (34-36 when the contract expires). Boras wants him around 12 years (41 when the contract expires). The AAV will remain the same. The longer the contract, the bigger the number Boras can parade around.
If he contends for a 3rd Cy Young, and the Tigers are playoff relevant next year, I can see pizza boy backing up the Brinks truck. This will be the first time that we get to see how C.Illitch handles the situation and will provide a predictor for future stars.
Should we really trust the New York Post to have scooped literally everyone else?
Boys.
Give your nuts a tug and settle in. Maybe he stays and maybe he goes but until he does one pr the other this is all theater for negotiations.
So you’re telling me there’s a chance.gif…
It was fun while it lasted 🥲
Zoinks Skuub!
I’m glad this is out there now. We can either get a deal done or move on with a trade at the GM meetings. I suspect a trade market would be limited to teams that can afford his new contract.
Good luck to the idiot team that’s going to pay him $50 million a year for 7 to 10 years. I want to keep him as much as everybody else, but not at the term he wants.
To make Skubal the highest paid pitcher by AAV and total value, they’d need to offer something like $430m over 8 seasons.
I’m assuming they’re willing to go $180m over 4 seasons or something like that so he’s highest paid ever by annual dollar amount, but they don’t want the duration. If he does get 8 seasons, that would mean he’s under contract through his age 37 season I think.
After that game 5 early exit…. No Fuckin Way!
This seems like just clickbait news, Heyman reported that the Tigers offered around $170 mil a year ago and estimates that his baseline is now around $400 mil. No report on what the actual figures are now.
Headlines like this are just part of the negotiations. They only exist to put public pressure on the negotiation process.
I don’t think baseball needs a salary cap but I do think it needs a cap on length of contracts. Most players don’t hit FA till theyre about 30 and at that point they’re expecting 6,8 even 10 years on their contract
It’s pretty unlucky timing with the CBA set to expire in 2026 and rumors of a potential salary cap being a major talking point.
Love Skub but he will literally be 30 by the time he plays a game under this new contract. The real problem with salary is that he made 12 million for this year AND last year’s cy young worthy seasons, where you’d value him at what, like $80 million? Not gonna fault these guys for trying to get their bag after the value of their labor has passed, say he gets injured? Then you got a literal decade of 30+ mil AAV hanging around. But hey, that’s the gamble you make for staying in WS contention the next couple years. Really truly see both sides.
I would offer 6/255ish. Would prefer not to be tied to anyone for 10 years, especially someone that is close to 30. If he doesn’t want a 5 or 6 year deal, shop him in the offseason. Don’t let Boras hold us hostage and make it a bad deal by year 4 with 6 more remaining.
I’m sure the downvotes will flood this reply. But that’s what I’d like to see the front office do.
They’d better trade him. The simple fact is Boras is going to take him to free agency and we all know the Tigers won’t be the top bidder. What Harris does with Skubal will likely define his tenure here.
Trade him then
Paying him 10 years is dumb in my opinion how many pitchers pitch well into their 40s
Yeah I’m gonna wait to have independent verification on this, Heyman is basically just a Boras media mouthpiece.
This shouldn’t be surprising. Nobody starts a negotiation with as much as they’re willing to give or as little as they’re willing to take.
I don’t see how you sign Skubal to this amount of money helps the whole team. I get it, he’s the ace But we can’t win with just him. We prove that this year.
Dodgers are gonna do something stupid like 6 years 1.5 billion with 1.49 billion deferred.
Yep we’re fucked. Hope Skubal enjoys LA or New York
He gone
He’s a Boras client. It was always going to be this way. Boras probably asked for a billion dollars during the Soto negotiations.
I am also over $250 million apart in negotiations with my employer
Can’t believe there’s so many people against signing him long term to a record breaking deal.
Even if he sucks in the back half of the deal it would keep our window open for 5+ years. Those 5 years would coincide with the arrival of McGonigle, Clarke, etc., and there would be multiple years with Riley, Tork, Dingler etc all under team contract still.
We don’t even make the post season the last two years without him and people are worried about pizza boy finally opening the wallet when there isn’t a salary cap?
He might be the best pitcher of this generation of pitchers, we should not let him walk like we did with Scherzer.
Surprised it’s that close. I figure Boras wants around $500 million and Illich is offering 2 whole Hot n’ Readys.
I bet they’re in close-enough agreement on the first 4 years and disagreement about the next 4.
Agent will want raises on the backend to remain the top of the market and no one holds on to the top for that long.
I don’t want to give anyone a 10 year contract in their 30s. Especially one worth half a billion. The way he pitches won’t be even close to sustainable halfway through that contract. Extremely unlikely we’d get 4 years at this caliber and then we’d just be blowing payroll on another slightly above average starter.
Why have a franchise if you can’t pay your best player.
50M hot n ready’s apart
(I know they aren’t 5 anymore)
To be fair, me and my company are about the same number apart as well.
I’m sorry, but he’s not worth 10 years $500 million. No pitcher is. Maybe back in the day when they would go 7+ innings every start, but not now. Sucks, I don’t want him to leave but he’s gone.