Will Tigers Pony up for Skubal

[1984Echoes]

16 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

What evidence do you have that he doesn’t care about the current team? Really bad take. 

And he’s not trading Skubal at the deadline if the team is in contention—if they were committed to extracting value for him, they’d do it now when he is most attractive in trade.

I agree.

IMO... there is NO deadline trade of Skubal.

Either we get a godfather offer soon, and Harris pulls the trigger on a deal he likes...

Or we get an entire season of Skubal and simply take the 2027 comp pick.

Could have some great fun this summer, with Skubal...

Not a bad place to be either way.

[ToledoTigerFan]

The only way to get Skubal to not hit the open market is to knock his and Boras' socks off with an offer. Say like 3-years, $180 million. This allows Skubal to potentially cash in again plus it allows the Tigers to get a massive contract off of the books fairly quickly. Hopefully, CI will pry open his wallet quickly enough to get such a deal done. 

[RatkoVarda]

29 minutes ago, ToledoTigerFan said:

The only way to get Skubal to not hit the open market is to knock his and Boras' socks off with an offer. Say like 3-years, $180 million. This allows Skubal to potentially cash in again plus it allows the Tigers to get a massive contract off of the books fairly quickly. Hopefully, CI will pry open his wallet quickly enough to get such a deal done. 

that would be a horrible deal for Skubal - pitchers get injured and he has already been injured

he is not foregoing $200M+ of guaranteed money to sign for 3 years

[oblong]

2 hours ago, ToledoTigerFan said:

The only way to get Skubal to not hit the open market is to knock his and Boras' socks off with an offer. Say like 3-years, $180 million. This allows Skubal to potentially cash in again plus it allows the Tigers to get a massive contract off of the books fairly quickly. Hopefully, CI will pry open his wallet quickly enough to get such a deal done. 

Nice to see you post TTF.  It's been a long time, eh?

 

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

Nice to see you post TTF.  It's been a long time, eh?

 

Do we know it's the same person?  

[Biff Mayhem]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

Do we know it's the same person?  

It is! 

[Biff Mayhem]

5 hours ago, ToledoTigerFan said:

The only way to get Skubal to not hit the open market is to knock his and Boras' socks off with an offer. Say like 3-years, $180 million. This allows Skubal to potentially cash in again plus it allows the Tigers to get a massive contract off of the books fairly quickly. Hopefully, CI will pry open his wallet quickly enough to get such a deal done. 

Hey hey TTF!

[tiger2022]

On 1/23/2026 at 11:39 AM, Tenacious D said:

What evidence do you have that he doesn’t care about the current team? Really bad take. 

And he’s not trading Skubal at the deadline if the team is in contention—if they were committed to extracting value for him, they’d do it now when he is most attractive in trade.

It's only a bad take because it differs from your opinion that's he a great GM, that's the only reason.  

He has done virtually nothing to improve the mlb roster since he took over.  I'm a realist and it's fine that there are people that love Harris but if you are honest with yourself, what has he really done?  Not much successfully.

He's been pretty lucky that Avila's players have finally started playing somewhat like mlb players.  Because his guys...Sweeney, Maeda, Morton, Kahnle, Paddack, Urshela, Canha, Vilade, Maton, Nevin, Cobb,  Urquidy, etc were all disasters.  And he had no veteran pitchers in AAA to give the team innings when the inevitable injuries happened.

So he has Torres, who faded down the stretch, always injured Vierling, McKinstry, and Flaherty , who had a good half of a season and was pretty awful last year.  A few RPs, which are always crapshoots...3 years of GM and that is what he has done to make the team better.  And this offseason?  Crickets?

Once again, it's only a bad take because it differs from your opinion of Harris.

[Tenacious D]

I’m not defending Harris’ performance (which I agree has been spotty), but his motives. I disagree with the notion that he doesn’t care about the active roster and only for the players he’s drafted.

[Stormin]

The Tigers record has improved each of the last three seasons and the Tigers have made the post season, and won a series, each of the last two seasons.  If this trend is the result of having the luckiest SOB GM in MLB,   my hope is that the GM continues to be a lucky SOB and gets the Tigers to the World Series.