It wasn’t supposed to end this way, with Tarik Skubal in the Dodgers’ rotation and October spent on vacation. Especially because it started with legitimate optimism.
The 2026 Detroit Tigers, fresh off an impressive postseason run that ended just outs from the ALCS, entered this season with massive stakes. Skubal, the back-to-back AL Cy Young, sat at the center of it all. With his contract expiring at season’s end and the Tigers unlikely to retain him long-term, this campaign almost certainly represented the franchise’s last chance to contend with the consensus best pitcher on the planet.
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It proved to be a chance not taken.
The Tiger…
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