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Nobody cared much about Tarik Skubal coming out of college, but the Tigers did
The Detroit Tigers are back in the playoffs, and their left-handed ace has much to do with their success in 2025.
The Tigers pitching staff is led by left-handed starter Tarik Skubal, who has pitched with the Tigers since his MLB debut in 2020. He has been baseball's best pitcher over the last two seasons, leading all qualified MLB starters in FanGraphs WAR (12.6), strikeouts (469), ERA (2.30) and FIP (2.48) since the start of 2024.
For his performance, Skubal was the unanimous pick as the 2024 American League Cy Young Award winner and is a heavy favorite to land the 2025 Cy Young Award, as well.
Quite simply, he's already one of the most accomplished pitchers in Tigers history — and he's only 28 years old.
Tarik Skubal’s journey: from overlooked prospect to Detroit Tigers’ Cy Young Ace
Tarik Skubal’s journey: from overlooked prospect to Detroit Tigers’ Cy Young Ace originally appeared on The Sporting News
Nobody expected much from Tarik Skubal when the Detroit Tigers called his name in the ninth round of the 2018 MLB Draft. Coming out of Seattle University, the only school to offer him a scholarship, and recovering from Tommy John surgery, the left-hander wasn’t on many scouts’ radars.
Now, in 2025, Skubal has become the most dominant pitcher in baseball, carrying the Tigers back into the postseason spotlight. With a Cy Young Award already secured in 2024 and another season of dominance in 2025, Skubal has gone from overlooked prospect to one of the faces of Major League Baseball.
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Tarik Skubal Should Apologize To All 17 Million Youth Baseball Players In America And Tell Them It's NOT OKAY To Throw A Ball Between Your Legs And Backwards To First
I was doing a show during the 6th inning, so I had White Boy Rick feeding me Guardians game updates, and I got this text from him: "You're going to wanna watch the clip of what Skubal just did"
Let me say with complete and utter honesty, I wish I'd never seen what Skubal just did. Sure it completely cost them the game. Sure I've never been more right about something in my entire life than Tarik Skubal not being able to pitch in big games. But I wish this clip had never crossed my eye line, as I'm now scared for the future of this country and this great game. Or let me rephrase, I hope that the over 17 million kids playing youth baseball across America never see what Skubal just did. It's one thing for me, a 32 year old that's played his last ball game of his life, to see Tarik Skubal field a bunt and try and throw it backwards, threw his legs to first base…..but it's a completely different thing for an impressionable young child to see their hero do it and develop the thought in his brain that it's "cool" or even worse, "acceptable". Hey Tarik, since I know you read these blogs (and that's not sarcasm), maybe take a look at this poem that I shared with my high school basketball team each preseason: