Happy Wednesday everyone! We\u2019ve had real baseball on our screens, complete with curmudgeon announcers griping about players with too many chains, and hot Tigers\u2019 prospects missing some routine fly balls (both Max Clark, sorry Max). But more important than any of that: we have been able to see and hear the Tigers play, which means we are getting our first real look of what this year\u2019s team might look like, and also it means we are getting ever closer to Opening Day.<\/p>\n
Between us and that magical day, though, there is still the World Baseball Classic, and Tarik Skubal surprised many by announcing he would only make one start for Team USA. He shared his reasoning (we\u2019ll get into it below) and it doesn\u2019t make us any less excited about watching that one start.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got that and other baseball tidbits below, so let\u2019s just get right into today\u2019s news.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the communication I had with those guys [Team USA]. There\u2019s some risk obviously, and I\u2019m trying to do both things, trying to pitch for Team USA, but also I understand I need to be here with these guys and get ready for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
One could certainly read between those lines and suggest that Skubal also isn\u2019t willing to risk an injury when this season will be his way to guarantee a massive free agency deal in 2027. Seems like he\u2019s playing it smart and safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Wednesday everyone! We\u2019ve had real baseball on our screens, complete with curmudgeon announcers griping about players with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,3536,2583,4,3537,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-592256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroit-tigers-news","12":"tag-detroittigers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-news","15":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116131827803423446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}