The Los Angeles Dodgers were rejoicing Sunday after acquiring two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal in a trade with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers sent three minor league prospects to Detroit in the deal announced Sunday, one day before the Major League Baseball trading deadline.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers are betting on Skubal joining a stacked rotation that would include Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani, although Snell, Glasnow and Ohtani are currently battling injuries.<\/p>\n
In exchange for the 29-year-old Skubal, who will be a free agent after this season, LA sent outfielder Zyhir Hope and pitchers River Ryan and Brady Smith to Detroit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to be a Dodger,\u201d Skubal told reporters in Sacramento, where the Tigers were playing the A\u2019s. \u201cI\u2019m excited to get down there and meet all those guys and chase three championships in a row. It\u2019s hard to do, so I\u2019m excited to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skubal made his Major League debut in 2020 with the Tigers, appearing in just eight games. He began to excel in 2023, going 7-3 with a 2.80 earned-run average. He followed that up with his best season in 2024, posting an 18-4 record with a 2.39 ERA and a league-leading 228 strikeouts in 192 innings pitched, winning the first of his back-to-back Cy Young Awards.<\/p>\n
His won-loss record was just 13-6 last season, but he still captured another Cy Young Award with a league-leading 2.21 ERA and 241 strikeouts in 195 innings.<\/p>\n
This season, Skubal has a 7-5 record with a 2.79 ERA and 116 strikeouts in 96 innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWelcome to Los Angeles, Tarik!\u201d the Dodgers posted Sunday on X.<\/p>\n
ESPN reported that Skubal will make his Dodgers debut Tuesday against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers were rejoicing Sunday after acquiring two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,39,4,2320,954,94921,953,594,4164],"class_list":["post-768289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-baseball","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-pitcher","tag-skubal","tag-snag","tag-tarik","tag-tigers","tag-trade"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117027825477918583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768289","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=768289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}