Detroit – Tarik Skubal is a Tiger, at least for now. He’s not likely to be a Tiger come 2027. Heck, he might not even be a Tiger on Opening Day 2026.

But maybe, just maybe, it doesn’t have to be that way.

By most accounts, there are two options for the Tigers when it comes to their back-to-back American League Cy Young winner: Trade him this winter and get whatever you can for him – one major-league-ready player and two top-100 prospects? – or keep him, go all-in for 2026 and try to win one World Series before the very real Skubal window shuts.

Nobody seems to think the Tigers – or 24 other major-league teams –are going to pony up the long-term freight that’s being floated, somewhere in the 10-year, $400 million range. Those megadeals in baseball almost never work out on the back end, a

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