DETROIT — Tarik Skubal got a chuckle out of it.

His catchers, Jake Rogers and Dillon Dingler, with the help of the Tigers’ social media team, put together a warm, tribute video, congratulating Skubal, who on Wednesday, by a vote of the Baseball Writers Association of America, won his second straight American League Cy Young Award. Rogers concluded the video with one of his patented one-liners.

“Eff it,” he said. “Why not three?”

“No doubt,” Skubal said. “There’s an opportunity to do that. You’re never satisfied, right? You want to win that award as many times as you can in your career. But, honestly, I’d gladly trade a Cy Young Award for a World Series ring.

“That’s an easy trade for me.”

Skubal is the first American League pitcher to win the award in consecutive years since Red Sox H

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