Tarik Skubal is a Dodger?! Grading the deadline's biggest blockbuster
Multiple teams were in on the two-time Cy Young winner, but the Dodgers got the deal done. Los Angeles Dodgers get: LHP Tarik Skubal Detroit Tigers get:...
Key points
- Multiple teams were in on the two-time Cy Young winner, but the Dodgers got the deal done.
- Los Angeles Dodgers get: LHP Tarik Skubal Detroit Tigers get: OF Zyhir Hope RHP River Ryan RHP Brady Smith Dodgers grade: A Let's consider this from the standpoint of the Dodgers' overall level of talent in the big leagues, measuring the period from 2023 to present.
- Here is the essential thing to impart: The Dodgers flat out did not need Skubal.
- The Dodgers, the best team in baseball, the two-time defending champions, have acquired the best pitcher in the sport.
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Multiple teams were in on the two-time Cy Young winner, but the Dodgers got the deal done. Los Angeles Dodgers get: LHP Tarik Skubal Detroit Tigers get: OF Zyhir Hope RHP River Ryan RHP Brady Smith Dodgers grade: A Let's consider this from the standpoint of the Dodgers' overall level of talent in the big leagues, measuring the period from 2023 to present. Here is the essential thing to impart: The Dodgers flat out did not need Skubal. The Dodgers, the best team in baseball, the two-time defending champions, have acquired the best pitcher in the sport. You're telling me that in exchange for the best pitcher in baseball, the Tigers could not command the best prospect out of the amazing surplus of promising outfielders the Dodgers have compiled? But there is also an annoyingly large chance that, as a group, these players compile less championship probability added for Detroit than Skubal will for the Dodgers between now and the end of this year's World Series.