LAS VEGAS \u2014 It\u2019s an unusual baseball offseason since a lockout\u2019s coming Dec. 1. But it\u2019s also unusual because one player looks dominant in the marketplace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How dominant?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Superstar starter Tarik Skubal, who set an arbitration record with his $32 million award last offseason, appears very likely to set pitching records for average annual salary and total value. He\u2019s also likely to receive about three times more than anyone else in this free agent market.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The biggest questions, of course, are: Who can afford him? Who\u2019s willing to spend big on a starter? And ultimately, who will get him?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 It\u2019s an unusual baseball offseason since a lockout\u2019s coming Dec. 1. But it\u2019s also unusual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,57,843,59,4280,4,61,18,185,430,428],"class_list":["post-849812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117590045704231398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849812","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=849812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}