Insider looking at Phillies as team that would overspend to land this player at Major League Baseball’s trade deadline originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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The Detroit Tigers might find themselves in a very strange position at Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, as there are obviously a lot of questions now about what the organization is going to do with Tarik Skubal.
Unless the Tigers still believe they have a chance to extend him during the offseason, or perhaps he takes a deal before the deadline to stay in Detroit long term, there really is no reason to keep him around. However, because of this surgery, there’s a very good chance teams aren’t going to want to give the Tigers what they would’ve gotten just a few months ago.
In fact, one MLB executive believes only Dave Dombrowski or AJ Preller, the San Diego Padres and Philadelphia Phillies top decision-makers, would be the only two who might overpay.
“It would have to be a [Dave] Dombrowski or [AJ] Preller to get a top prospect. Everyone else treats it like Wall Street and asset value so my guess is a couple of top 10 prospects for a couple months of him. Or [Andrew] Friedman could go out and get him. He ups a team’s chances to win the World Series by a pretty big margin. You get two starts in that five-game series. Friedman gets him, that’s my prediction,” the exec said of a Skubal trade, per Robert Murray.
I’d still find it very hard to believe that Skubal isn’t going to go for a crazy amount of prospects.
Unless teams really don’t believe that he’s healthy for the long term, this is still one of the best starters that Major League Baseball has seen in quite some time. It wouldn’t make any sense not to get a huge return for him if he’s relatively healthy.
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