{"id":610992,"date":"2026-03-07T03:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/610992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:30:38","slug":"tigers-tarik-skubal-reveals-plan-for-wbc-semifinals-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/610992\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers’ Tarik Skubal reveals plan for WBC semifinals, finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tarik Skubal is scheduled to pitch in a spring training game for the Detroit Tigers on March 16.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one problem: that\u2019s the same day Team USA faces a potential semifinal game in the World Baseball Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s not necessarily how Team USA manager Mark DeRosa would have drawn it up. Most teams prefer to save their best pitchers for the elimination rounds.<\/p>\n

According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today<\/a>, the only condition where Skubal would have pitched in the WBC is if he was limited to one game during the Pool Play portion of the tournament.<\/p>\n

\"\"Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal high-fives teammates in the dugout after a pitching change during the seventh inning at Comerica Park in Detroit on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.<\/p>\n

His plan for the semifinals and finals?<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to get back to (Tigers) camp and get back to my routine,\u201d Skubal told Nightengale<\/a>, \u201cbut I want to go to Miami and just be at those (WBC) games. \u2026 I might just be there and be a cheerleader.\u201d<\/p>\n

The back-to-back American League Cy Young Award winner at least might be in the ballpark with his teammates with the WBC championship on the line.<\/p>\n

Skubal enters his final year before free agency and doesn\u2019t want to risk an injury by overextending himself in March. That\u2019s a unique, if understandable, predicament among players participating in the WBC.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a predicament nonetheless. The awkward situation would escalate if Skubal is in the building and has to decline if DeRosa asks him to pitch in the WBC championship game.<\/p>\n

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