{"id":850426,"date":"2026-08-10T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850426\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:16:20","slug":"freddie-freeman-defends-tarik-skubal-after-dodgers-stars-comments-on-tigers-mlb-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850426\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Freeman Defends Tarik Skubal After Dodgers Star’s Comments on Tigers, MLB Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star first baseman Freddie Freeman understood Tarik Skubal’s comments about hoping that the Detroit Tigers would make an effort<\/a> to re-sign him in the offseason after trading him to the Los Angeles Dodgers, even if they weren’t received well in his new city.<\/p>\n

“You’re not just gonna flip a switch and be, like, ‘Oh, I’m great,'” Freeman told reporters<\/a>. “… You have all these friends, all these people you came up with in the minor leagues that are now with you as teammates. You had 15-hour bus rides together. You’re doing all these things together. The organization invested in you. You invested in them. You can do everything you can to win a World Series, and it doesn’t happen, and then you get traded.\u00a0So, you’re going to have emotions.”<\/p>\n

Freeman also didn’t understand any negativity being pointed Skubal’s way, especially from Detroit.<\/p>\n

“He got traded,” he said. “There’s nothing he could have done, unless they gave him a billion dollars and he didn’t say yes to that.”<\/p>\n

This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.<\/p>\n

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