The Detroit Tigers have been near the top of the American League throughout the Major League Baseball season. A major reason for that is the second straight excellent season from Tarik Skubal . The Tigers' ace won the AL Cy Young award last season and is the favorite to repeat. While Boston Red Sox All-Star Garrett Crochet put up a good fight, he did not do enough to win the award.

Skubal suffered an oblique injury that knocked him out of his last start . Even if that was his final outing of the season, the All-Star starter has the AL Cy Young all but won. Tigers manager AJ Hinch has had nothing but good things to say about his ace all season. The former Houston Astros skipper knows elite pitching when he sees it, but Skubal is in a class of his own.

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