2026 DETROIT TIGERS REGULAR SEASON THREAD

[romad1]

14 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Click bait.. Lot of pitchers - lot of athletes - have bone chips removed from elbows etc., and it really is no big deal. Of course they could have found something worse when they went in and looked (a la Zumaya) but it that were true then the Skubal camp was putting out outright lies, which seems improbable since it will be perfectly obvious when he has trouble coming back. If they were shading on the time line the only audience for that that matters would be the Tiger FO and I'm sure the FO is not taking any action on anything other than an actual surgical report, not some tweet.

I want to believe he comes back and Willis Reed's the season but... the money involved means we should be looking at some shenanigans on the truth. 

[Sports_Freak]

6 hours ago, romad1 said:

I want to believe he comes back and Willis Reed's the season but... the money involved means we should be looking at some shenanigans on the truth. 

I want to believe the report because I predicted Skubal would be back by July 1st. 😁

[chasfh]

18 hours ago, monkeytargets39 said:

The news so nice they had to say it twice!

[chasfh]

We will learn pretty quickly whether it's a lie ...

[Edman85]

Tigers put their update out Friday afternoons. It will probably say he had successful surgery Thursday and is completing rehab daily.

[romad1]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

We will learn pretty quickly whether it's a lie ...

If he returns and shoves...I'll be happiest.  I'm just concerned this is designed to secure ticket sales for the rest of the year or some other financial reason. 

[Tenacious D]

1 hour ago, Edman85 said:

Tigers put their update out Friday afternoons. It will probably say he had successful surgery Thursday and is completing rehab daily.

Wake me up when he starts to “long toss”

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

We will learn pretty quickly whether it's a lie ...

Not really.  It could all be true and he could still be out 2-3 months.  

[SoCalTiger]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

The news so nice they had to say it twice!

Heyman is a Boras shill. 

[chasfh]

32 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Heyman is a Boras shill. 

Doesn't mean it's wrong. I also don't see the business advantage of outrageously lying about it. What's in it for Boras to do so? Skubal gets back when he gets back whether it's four weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks, or 2027.

[Tenacious D]

33 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Doesn't mean it's wrong. I also don't see the business advantage of outrageously lying about it. What's in it for Boras to do so? Skubal gets back when he gets back whether it's four weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks, or 2027.

From Boras’ camp:  “nothing to see here.”  

[SoCalTiger]

12 hours ago, chasfh said:

Doesn't mean it's wrong. I also don't see the business advantage of outrageously lying about it. What's in it for Boras to do so? Skubal gets back when he gets back whether it's four weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks, or 2027.

Boras is using Heyman to downplay the degree..one small loose body...like Tenacious D is saying. Maybe not a big advantage but it's perception building. "no added sugar"..etc..Boras get's good press and Heyman gets scoops. 

[casimir]

I just wonder how Tiger pitching health is compared with other teams over the past several seasons.  This is at the major league level and minor league levels.  It’s probably difficult to get an accurate read if what the Tigers do throughout the system is more or less impactful on arm health vs the rest of baseball.

[chasfh]

13 hours ago, SoCalTiger said:

Boras is using Heyman to downplay the degree..one small loose body...like Tenacious D is saying. Maybe not a big advantage but it's perception building. "no added sugar"..etc..Boras get's good press and Heyman gets scoops. 

But they are not in a contract negotiation right now, so what's the hoped-for gain here? Whether Skubal comes back in late June, late July, late August, or whenever this season, he still will have to perform at a Cy Young-level to get that max contract. And if he comes out and pitches meh, will teams go back to Heyman's tweet and say, well, this here says the surgery was more than successful, so let's go ahead and give him the extra three years and $150MM? I don't see that happening. And if he were not to make it back at all this season, then Heyman's tweet will be exposed as a lie. So I'm struggling to see where the money in this tweet is for Skubal and Boras?

[Tiger337]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

But they are not in a contract negotiation right now, so what's the hoped-for gain here? Whether Skubal comes back in late June, late July, late August, or whenever this season, he still will have to perform at a Cy Young-level to get that max contract. And if he comes out and pitches meh, will teams go back to Heyman's tweet and say, well, this here says the surgery was more than successful, so let's go ahead and give him the extra three years and $150MM? I don't see that happening. And if he were not to make it back at all this season, then Heyman's tweet will be exposed as a lie. So I'm struggling to see where the money in this tweet is for Skubal and Boras?

 I don't think it's a strategic move, but rather a psychological thing where he wants to keep news about Skubal as positive as possible at all times.  I don't know who he's trying to fool, but isn't that how marketing works? 

[chasfh]

15 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

 I don't think it's a strategic move, but rather a psychological thing where he wants to keep news about Skubal as positive as possible at all times.  I don't know who he's trying to fool, but isn't that how marketing works? 

And that's fine as far as it goes. If Heyman is tweeting this because he's Boras's boyfriend, then OK, have at it. But the implication on page 12 was that Heyman was working on behalf of Boras to presumably provide him some sort of bargaining advantage, and I just don't see how that would apply here.

[chasfh]

Talk about top flight dumpster diving: 

There are simply no good options a quarter of the way into the season.

[diaspora04]

I read that as Carls Jr.