Should Tigers trade Tarik Skubal in 2025-26 offseason? Ex-GM breaks it down
Former MLB general manager Jim Duquette joins “Days of Roar” podcast to analyze if Detroit Tigers should consider trading ace Tarik Skubal this offseason.
The Detroit Tigers are historically bad.
At least, they have been over the past 13 games entering Sunday’s series finale against the Toronto Blue Jays at Comerica Park.
They are 1-12 from July 9-26, free-falling from the best record in MLB to eighth-best in a span of just more than two weeks. Their best-in-baseball division lead has been chopped in half to seven games. Nothing is working.
But it is worse than that.
The Tigers (60-46) are the only MLB team in the modern era to have a 13-game span where they were …
- Outscored by 50 or more runs.
- Outhit by 50 or more.
- Had fewer than 25 extra-base hits.
- Struck out 125 or more times.
These numbers are from Stats Perform.
Not to mention, Riley Greene, the Tigers’ best hitter at 24 years old, is on pace for a single-season team-record 215 strikeouts. That would smash Cecil Fielder’s 182 strikeouts in 1990.
So yes. Maybe it really is THAT bad.
The good news: The Tigers play the trade-deadline selling Arizona Diamondbacks (51-54) on Monday-Wednesday at Comerica Park.
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The bad news: The Tigers have lost seven straight games at home.
The MLB trade deadline is Thursday at 6 p.m. Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris, you’re on the clock.
[ MUST LISTEN: Talking trade deadline, Tarik Skubal’s future with ex-MLB GM Jim Duquette. Make “Days of Roar” your go-to Tigers podcast, available anywhere you listen to podcasts (Apple, Spotify) ]
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