Big day tomorrow in a lot of ways. A precedent setting arbitration case? I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear how the Tigers are going to argue against Skubal.
Big day tomorrow in a lot of ways. A precedent setting arbitration case? I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear how the Tigers are going to argue against Skubal.
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A difference of $13m could mean whether we sign another starting pitcher or not before spring training
Feel like the argument will probably be something along the lines of “David Price and Jacob deGrom had better resumes at the end of their arb years and Skubal’s ask for his raise this year is vastly beyond what either of them got percentage wise from the prior year.” It’ll be about precedent rather than picking holes in his resume.
is there a time for it/when its done and we know the outcome?
I don’t see how he doesn’t get at least $25m
The more this goes on the more I want him gone tbh. I want to love him for how great he is but he just feels too much like a mercenary to me. For what its worth I would LOVE to be wrong and if he signed a deal I’d have a skubal jersey and autographed baseball card within 3 days lol.
The front office has said many times that they’ll spend when the time is right. MLB still doesn’t have a salary cap, and the Tigers are trying to sell a bunch of premium seating.
It is what it is. No need to be worried about it, the end will be the same result no matter what: Skubal is here for a year and then is likely walking in free agency. If the front office wins the arbitration case, maybe we sign another depth starting pitcher. If Skubal wins, he gets a well deserved raise. Simple as that.
more like Foodball withdrawals